Date: June 3, 2020
At 15, Plum Valentine is banished from her Brooklyn home and sent back to Jamaica by parents nervous about the pernicious effects of the American lifestyle. Once there, her trust […]
Date: June 3, 2020
In the bedroom of Harlem Renaissance poet Anne Spencer, there’s a mural depicting a well-dressed crowd at a cocktail party pasted to the wall. Spencer’s granddaughter, Shaun Spencer-Hester, points to […]
Date: June 3, 2020
Family relations can be fraught in the best of times, even when people care deeply for one another. So what happens when you throw those family members into a situation […]
Date: June 3, 2020
It’s Detroit, 1968. Sisters Rosa and Esther march against the war in Vietnam with their best friend, Maggie. As they reached the rally site, double rows of blank-faced National Guard […]
Date: June 3, 2020
On this episode of Rekindled, Andrew Altschul is in conversation with Ellen Meeropol. Andrew Altschul’s third novel, The Gringa, was published the day before the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus crisis […]
Date: June 3, 2020
Kathryn interviews Creative Writing and Literature teacher at Antioch University, Los Angeles Deborah Lott, author of “Don’t Go Crazy Without Me.” More than just the tragicomic coming-of-age story of a […]
Date: June 3, 2020
The meaning of the intriguing title of Lott’s courageous and endearing memoir snaps into sharp focus. “My father and I were not ordinary,” she writes. “Oh no, we had formed […]
Date: June 3, 2020
This spring the formidable Deborah A. Lott—author, editor and college instructor—will be visiting the Unlocking Your Story workshop. She’ll be offering us an inside view of the creative process behind writing […]
Date: June 3, 2020
It’s hard not to read every throat tickle and stuffy nose as a possible foreshadowing of COVID-19, but a recovering hypochondriac helps to walk us back and separate true symptoms, […]
Date: June 3, 2020
Two weeks ago, when restaurants were still open, I watched a friend at lunch repeatedly spritz his hands with hand sanitizer. It seemed more compulsion than prudent protective measure. If […]
Date: September 11, 2018
Bigfoots in Paradise, by Doug Lawson, was reviewed by Booklist Online. Booklist Online reviews more that 180,000 books by trusted experts at the American Library Association. Leah Strauss from Booklist […]
Date: September 5, 2018
The Perpetual Motion Machine was reviewed by Kirkus Reviews. The book is a memoir that tells the story of Brittany Ackerma, the author, and how she would gradually find her […]
Date: September 4, 2018
David Mason must feel amazing that American Life in Poetry has choosen his poem The Mud Room. It brings us joy that he was mentioned! Check it out here
Date: September 4, 2018
The Audio Saucepan has recenlty included poems by Mark Wagenaar from Southern Tongues Leave Us Shining on the epispde “The Thumped Palm Episode.” You can listen to it here
Date: August 14, 2018
Poems by Augsburg’s Max Sessner appear in English in literary magazines in the USA. Translated by Francesca Bell, a translator and lyricist in the USA, who after making contact with […]
Date: August 14, 2018
The American Journal of Poetry features yet another poem by Red Hen author Dean Kostos. The journal praises Dean’s past and recent publications as well as acknowledges awards won by […]
Date: July 26, 2018
The ancient masters encounter the modern world in John Barr’s inventive new poetry collection Dante in China, a book that poses a triple threat: entertaining, educational and enlightening.
Date: July 24, 2018
In a recent review, Sarah Leamy provides a detailed summary of tammy lynee stoner's novel Sugar Land. Describing the book and stoner's characters, Leamy claims, "These characters linger and are […]
Date: July 19, 2018
Athens, Georgia magazine Flagpole reviewed Bradley Bazzle's recently published (and first!) novel Trash Mountain as part of a short summer reading list. "With a finely drawn young protagonist, Ben, and […]
Date: July 18, 2018
In a recent review, Booklist Review‘s Jonathan Fullmer describes Bryan Hurt’s collection Everyone Wants to Be Ambassador to France as “18 amusingly eccentric stories.” Despite containing distinct stories with quite […]
