Chapter 16: The Skin of Meaning excerpt
Date: June 4, 2020
The Skin of Meaning He was late to the party and without directions,though his invitation was secure, and his instinctskeenly honed to an acceptable edge, and as we arewaiting to […]
News & Reviews
News:
Daily Poetry: Ascension
Date: June 4, 2020
Ascension Didi Jackson The blue jays lay claimto the raspberry busharriving in groups of four or five:one holds a rubied berry in its beakand feeds it up in the white […]
Lithub: ‘Almost Animal’ A Poem by Didi Jackson
Date: June 4, 2020
after Käthe Kollwitz I heard they no longer sew eyelids of the dead shut.At the morgue, I busied myself countingthe lacerations on my husband’s neck and wrists.I wore sunglasses and […]
VPR: ‘Between Abject Fear And Inexplicable Optimism’: Vt. Poets On The Pandemic
Date: June 4, 2020
Major Jackson: I’m fluctuating between abject fear and inexplicable optimism. Mitch Wertlieb: That’s poet Major Jackson, who lives in South Burlington. And you may have heard a bit of laughter […]
Mary Odden’s Blog
Date: June 4, 2020
https://www.maryodden.com/neighborsblog
Lithub: Finding My Story in the Colonial Past of the Andaman Islands
Date: June 3, 2020
My new novel Glorious Boy began with a dream. On a tropical island during an emergency evacuation, a young girl was hiding in a dense rainforest with a small, mute white boy […]
Caroline Leavitt’s Blog Interview with Aimee Liu
Date: June 3, 2020
Aimee Liu talks about GLORIOUS BOY, the excruciating process of writing, creating a memorable silent character, her shapeshifter dad, and so much more.
Ms. Q&A: Authors Aimee Liu and Cai Emmons Talk Motherhood, Shame and Releasing Books Mid-Pandemic
Date: June 3, 2020
Some 30 years ago, an established nonfiction writer and a screenwriter decided to write their first novels. They met in a fiction writing class, and have been friends ever since, […]
NY Times: Percival Everett Has a Book or Three Coming Out
Date: June 3, 2020
Featured mentioning of Percival Everett’s Colonel Hap Thompson!
OutSmart: National Poetry Month 2020 Reading List
Date: June 3, 2020
Presented in five poetic sequences, the poems in Hold Me Tight by gay poet Jason Schneiderman focuses the reader’s attention on the subjects of anger, real and metaphorical wolves, the work of the late […]
Reviews:
Sugar House Review’s thoughtful take on Gaylord Brewer’s Give Over, Graymalkin
Date: January 31, 2012
Robin Linn for Sugar House Review had this to say about Give Over, Graymalkin: Brewers collection engages with adventuresome verse that is lyrical, rhythmic and lush with allusion. Sugar House […]
Notre Dame Magazine chooses Brian Doyle’s Bin Laden’s Bald Spot as a Cafe Choice Book”!”
Date: January 31, 2012
Notre Dame Magazine spotlights Bin Laden's Bald Spot, saying: In [Brian Doyles] collection of 25 stories, readers will meet a barber who shaves the heads of thugs in Bin Ladens […]
Poetry Salzburg Review Gives Ally Acker’s Some Help from the Dead an excellent review.
Date: January 31, 2012
In the Autumn 2011 edition, Poetry Salzburg Review said: "Ally Ackers Some Help from the Dead offers high-spirited, lively encounters with life and language as well as frequent commemorations […]
Publishers Weekly says Ron Carlson Delivers the Whimsy” “
Date: January 23, 2012
In a recent Publishers Weekly article, Wendy Werris profiles author Ron Carlson for their January 20th edition. Werris acknowledges that "after 10 books of fiction in 35 years [Carlson] will […]
Southern Indiana Review gives great review for Covet by Lynnell Edwards
Date: January 19, 2012
Southern Indian Review reviews Covet by Lynnell Edwards. Here is a small excerpt from the article: “…In Covet, femininity becomes a masterful force and fragility a pointed threat… Edwards uses […]
Covet by Lynnell Edwards reviewed by Book Punch
Date: January 18, 2012
Covet by Lynnell Edwards is reviewed by Book Punch in 200 words or less. “Covet is a verb. It’s active. Here, in these poems, it’s also a constant choice. And […]
Bigcitylit.com reviews Vocabulary Of Silence
Date: November 1, 2011
George Wallace reviewd Vocabulary Of Silence for BigCityLit. He said of it, Vocabulary of Silence is a collection to savor and experience fully, a collection to educate ourselves with. It […]
Hey, Small Press! reviews In the ice house
Date: October 27, 2011
Hey, Small Press! reviewed In the ice house, saying of it, Kaplan’s first collection of poetry somehow straddles the fence of simple and rich. The poet captures the natural world, […]
Bin Laden’s Bald Spot in Shelf Awareness
Date: October 27, 2011
Shelf Awareness, the popular daily e-newsletter, recently ran a review of BLBS, the new short story collection from Brian Doyle: "This is vintage Doyle, and it doesn't get much better. […]
Shelf Awareness looks at Blood Daughters
Date: October 27, 2011
Sara Dobie reviewed Blood Daughters for Shelf Awareness and was pleased to find "Blood Daughters is entertaining and well-written, with a vivacious heroine at the helm and action that doesn't […]