News:

Mitchell Douglas nominated for a Hurston/Wright!

Date: March 16, 2020

Mitchell Douglas, author of Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem, has been nominated for a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, in the Poetry category. Congratulations Mitchell! More info here.

Camille Dungy on Verse Daily and PSA

Date: March 16, 2020

The Poetry Society of America has a great interview with Camille Dungy about that nebulously national literature, American Poetry. Read the full thing here. Her poem “Sunday Morning,” from her new […]

Amy Uyematsu Writes for Huffington Post

Date: March 16, 2020

Author Amy Uyematsu wrote a post for Huffington Post about growing up in a time where there weren't many other Asian-American poets, and how that has had a large impact […]

Red Hen author Verónica Reyes featured in The Advocate

Date: March 16, 2020

Red Hen author, Verónica Reyes, is featured in The Advocate for her recent Lambda Award nomination. The Lambda Award is sponsored by The Lambda Literary Foundation that "nurtures, celebrates, and […]

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Reviews:

Library Thing review

Date: September 24, 2009

Erinn Batykefer’s award-winning debut collection given a 4 1/2 star review on Library Thing: “The mark of excellent poetry is that it leads you to places you could never find […]

Lambda Literary Review by Jason Schneiderman

Date: September 9, 2009

Ching-In Chen’s debut collection of poems is a sprawling and ambitious work …. I found myself admiring the book for being so satisfyingly messy, for allowing itself to sprawl and […]

Tokyo Bay Traffic

Date: July 4, 2009

A lot of the most exciting prose published in the last couple years is enlivened by the introduction of non-English elements. The Times Book Review made note of the way […]

Subterranean Memory by Harry Goldstein

Date: June 22, 2009

Memory provides the raw material for the stories we tell about ourselves. Or maybe memories are fictions themselves, vague impressions of feelings combined with fleeting shards of images woven together […]

Existential Treadmill (American Book Review)

Date: June 17, 2009

The stories in Greg Sanders's debut collection are difficult to categorize. They owe a debt to Franz Kafka and fabulists like Jorge Luis Borges but seem just as strongly to […]

Weights and Measures by Jack Smith

Date: June 3, 2009

AMERICAN BOOK REVIEW, Vol. 30, No. 4, May/June 2009"Author of the prize-winning novel The Marriage of Anna Maye Potts (2001), editor of several literary anthologies and numerous essays and stories […]

DeWitt Henry

Date: June 2, 2009

DeWitt Henry, mon sembable, mon frere, was two years behind me at Amherst, but way ahead of me in life. While the rest of us were yearning for graduate school, […]

Gabriel Gomez of Local iQ reviews Bone Light

Date: May 18, 2009

The work of the poet is one of reassessment: it's a continual look at the intricacies and minutiae of a world outfitted with a voluminous gadgetry of words. Poems, at […]

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