The Imagination Is Free: And So Is this Lecture
Date: June 4, 2020
David Mason gives a hypothetical “last lecture”!
News & Reviews
News:
The Swamp
Date: June 4, 2020
It is Fourth of July weekend, and until a few days earlier, we had forgotten that for coastal towns this is prime time for tourism. Despite the busy sidewalks and […]
C-Ville: Taking covers: Your social distancing reading list
Date: June 4, 2020
With the cancellation of the Virginia Festival of the Book, and recommendations to practice social distancing, there’s never been a better time to pick up some extra reading material. While […]
The Oregonian: Poems for the Pandemic
Date: June 4, 2020
Kim Stafford’s days have a rhythm, a routine. Oregon’s poet laureate wakes before dawn. He takes a long walk around his neighborhood. When he returns to his home in Southwest Portland, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Reviews:
Midwest Book Review Recommends Cairn
Date: March 16, 2020
Midwest Book Review provided a short review of Peggy Shumaker’s latest work Cairn: New and Selected. A collection of poems which encompass Peggy’s experiences in Alaska and Arizona, Midwest Book Review writes that […]
The Florida Review praises IN JUNE THE LABYRINTH
Date: March 16, 2020
The fantastic Florida Review gave a rave review of Cynthia Hogue’s In June the Labyrinth, calling it “a stunning and unforgettable book.” Thanks Florida Review!
Gregory Orr reviews Avocations
Date: March 16, 2020
Avocations Sam Hamill. Red Hen (CDC, dist.), $19.95 (248p) ISBN 978-1-59709-086-5 Who can match him for range, passion, and scholarship? What aspect of poetry from Zen aesthetics to political engagement […]
The Yellow Door” is a powerful indictment and a celebration for poet
Date: March 16, 2020
Poet, Michael Dennis, reviewed Amy Uyematsu’s The Yellow Door on his blog recently. For his daily book of poetry, he focused on how The Yellow Door shares lessons that we need to remember and […]
Philip Metres at Behind The Lines: Poetry, War, & Peacemaking
Date: March 16, 2020
“The poems have a sardonic, lacerating edge, in the mode of the best confessional poems which admit to the political (Lowell, Plath, Wojahn, etc.).”
Food Tank features EAT LESS WATER
Date: March 16, 2020
Florencia Ramirez’s Eat Less Water was listed as one of the 22 Books for Winter 2018 by Food Tank, an innovative team focused on rethinking the food system and alleviating world hunger. Eva Perroni […]
Line Assembly marvels at Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise
Date: March 16, 2020
Line Assembly applauds But a Storm Is Blowing From a Paradise.- But a Storm Is Blowing From a Paradise “explodes with dream and bear and body and city and money and no-money and […]
Michael Turner’s review on Growler
Date: March 16, 2020
“Many of Green’s speakers seem to desire to disappear, to re-work the equation for subtraction. It is the frustration caused by a world that fails to allow disappearance which provides […]
Shelf Awareness Gives The Mighty Currawongs A Gold Star
Date: March 16, 2020
“With his mastery of language and eye for detail, Doyle’s characters always feel authentic, and their ups and downs are realistically proportioned. His gift for finding the sublime in even […]
Stephen Corey reviews The Bob and Weave
Date: March 16, 2020
The Bob and Weave Jim Peterson. Red Hen (CDC, dist.), $16.95 (120p) ISBN 1-888996-65-X Jim Peterson’s poems are filled with the things of this world– its horses, hands, stones, and […]