KUER 90.1: To Be Alive — Is Power: Poetry For The Pandemic
Date: June 4, 2020
With all that’s going on right now, it may be more important than ever to remember to take a beat and appreciate something beautiful — even if that’s just a […]
News & Reviews
News:
Ms. Magazine: A Word Person Thinks About Bodies
Date: June 4, 2020
It was recently brought to my attention that my characters are obsessed with bodies—their own and everyone else’s.
CBC: Milton’s Paradise Lost: a survival guide for a fractured world
Date: June 4, 2020
Vietnamese-American writer Andrew Lam considers Paradise Lost “the first refugee story.” “When I learned about it, as someone who had lost his homeland, it resonated, naturally, because Vietnam was everything to my […]
Black Earth Institue: Social Distancing
Date: June 4, 2020
In dreams I walk through crowds, brushing arms, knocking elbows. Skin to skin: hands are bare. Crocuses congregate in beds, along sidewalks. Unlatching city gates,
Poets.org: Aerial, Wild Pine
Date: June 4, 2020
A flare of russet,green fronds, surpriseof flush againstthe bare grey cypressin winter woods. Cardinal wild pine,quill-leaf airplantor dog-drink-water.Spikes of bright bloom–exotic plumage.
Arts At MIT: A Writer’s Voyage: Mia Heavener, MIT Course 1, 2000
Date: June 4, 2020
“Be stubborn and ultimately believe in your writing,” advises first-time novelist Mia Heavener ’00, “especially if you are having crappy writing days.” On April 13, Heavener visited Wyn Kelley’s literature […]
Lithub: Writing Place in a Time of Crisis
Date: June 4, 2020
Tess Taylor’s new poetry collection Rift Zone is published this month. She shares five books about writing place in a time of crisis.
Datebook: How Bay Area authors stay creative amid the coronavirus pandemic
Date: June 4, 2020
Poet Tess Taylor questioned what it means to be creative, when every day feels like a radical reinvention of life. “These days, helping myself and my family steer a way around sadness, […]
NY Times: We’re Doing What We Can to Keep Truckers on the Road
Date: June 4, 2020
LINCOLN, Neb. — My mother was born into a flu-stricken household at the height of the pandemic of 1918. Within minutes she was swaddled in a homemade quilt and placed […]
PSA: Francisco Aragón “1985”
Date: June 4, 2020
1985 Long and black, the streaksof gray, aflutter in the lightwind as she prepares to tell her story at the Federal Building:reaching into a tattered sackshe pulls out a doll […]
Reviews:
The Virginia Quarterly Review on Glass Town
Date: May 29, 2012
Emerson argued that one’s body belongs to the Not me rather than the Me, and Whitman countered that our identities derive from our bodies. These opposing views define the two […]
Asianweek.com on Glacier Lily
Date: May 29, 2012
A collection of poems that captures the experiences of a Korean American writer living in two worlds — her native Korea, her contemporary America. Neither and both are quite home […]
Reed Wilson Review of Ghost Orchid
Date: May 29, 2012
Maurya Simon’s sixth collection of poems, the visionary Ghost Orchid, begins, like Dante’s Commedia, in the middle of life, where we always are. The first section’s title poem, “Between Heaven […]
The Comstock Review on Kurt Brown’s Future Ship
Date: May 29, 2012
Perhaps there is no present, and existence is built of the alterable past moving into the alterable future, and then through the opaque door of death. Or perhaps there is […]
Jim Ruland reviews Robert Roberge’s Working Backwards From the Worst Moment of My Life
Date: May 29, 2012
In a review in San Diego City Beat, Jim Ruland had this to say about Robert Roberge's Working Backwards From the Worst Moment of My Life – "Slick, brutal and […]
Margaret Rozga reviews Peggy Shumaker’s Gnawed Bones
Date: May 29, 2012
In her review in Gently Read Literature, Margaret Rozga had this to say about Peggy Shumaker's Gnawed Bones – "There is so much more careful observation, music, meditation, and clear, […]
Library Journal loves Kelly Barth’s My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus
Date: May 29, 2012
In a recent review, Library Journal had this to say about Kelly Barth's My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus – "This charming memoir, Barth's first book, is an exemplary coming-out […]
House Arrest Reviewed by Psychology Today
Date: May 24, 2012
Bella DePaulo from Psychology Today posted a fantastic review of Ellen Meeropol's newest book, House Arrest: "I didn't plan to do so, but I read it straight through until I […]
Phyllis McGuire reviews Michael Quadland’s Offspring
Date: May 24, 2012
In a recent article on iBerkshires, Phyllis McGuire says that Michael Quadland's Offspring is "ultimately about a search for truth — not honesty in the moral sense, but the truth […]
Kennebec Journal loves Ellen Meeropol’s House Arrest
Date: April 24, 2012
Kennebec Journal says that "Meeropol deftly combines her medical experience with solid writing talent to produce a suspenseful yet warm and sensitive story that explores right and wrong, the unequal […]