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: June 3, 2020
Subduction topped the New Release in Hispanic American Literature Amazon Kindle chart, so you know it’s a good read for summer. Kristen Millares Young’s book follows Claudia, a Latina anthropologist who […]
Date: June 3, 2020
Kristen Millares Young, author of Subduction, recommends We Had No Rules by Corinne Manning.
Date: June 3, 2020
Kristen Millares Young was a prize-winning journalist when I first met her and I first read the beginning of Subduction in a class I taught at the Port Townsend Writer’s […]
Date: June 3, 2020
Last week, I spoke with Kristen Millares Young, author of the novel Subduction, released on April 14 by Red Hen Press. The story follows two such seekers to the tip of the […]
Date: June 3, 2020
Kristen Millares Young on Learning from Makah Tradition I am zipped into a tent on my friend’s beachfront lawn. Caring for her mom and kids, she has a full house, […]
Date: June 2, 2020
I don’t remember when or how Kristen Millares Young and I became friends, but I know it happened in Coast Salish territory, specifically Seattle, where she lives and I left. Subduction, her debut novel […]
Date: June 2, 2020
Ms. Magazine Ms. Feminist Know-It-All features Subduction! In this utterly unique and important first novel, Young examines themes of love, intrusion, loss, community and trust against a backdrop of a […]
Date: June 2, 2020
There are a lot of moving, shifting pieces that comprise Kristen Millares Young’s stunning debut novel, Subduction; its characters are equal parts voyeurs and participants in their own unraveling, and the Pacific […]
Date: June 2, 2020
Kristen Millares Young was preparing for a number of events this spring to support her novel Subduction. Now, she’s in a very different position — one of many writers lacking one […]
Date: May 17, 2013
Garrett Bryant from Hinged says that the poems from Brynn Saito's The Palace of Contemplating Departure sing.- "Saito’s ferocious and confident voice guides the reader through both an external journey […]
Date: May 17, 2013
Christopher Bernard from Synchronized Chaos says that the poems found in Ernest Hilbert's All of You on the Good Earth are "some of the most elegant poems in American literature […]
Date: May 9, 2013
Donna Miscolta calls Kelly Davio's Burn This House "blisteringly good poetry".- "In Burn this House (Red Hen Press), Kelly Davio explores relationships—how they falter or erode, how time distorts the […]
Date: May 9, 2013
Thuy Dinh from Shelf Awareness praises Burn This House by Kelly Davio.- "Kelly Davio's debut poetry collection, Burn This House, smolders with doubt and misdirection. Cosmic yet controlled, her poetry […]
Date: May 1, 2013
ArielleYarwood from Lambda Literary Review calls Eloise Klein Healy's A Wild Surmise: New & Selected Poems & Recordings "a book that won’t easily be shaken from your mind."- "How to […]
Date: May 1, 2013
Michelle Salcido from The Rumpus praises Kelly Davio's Burn This House.- "Davio explores the erosion of faith, time, memory, and love with clear speakers who are unafraid to expose doubts […]
Date: April 25, 2013
Charlie Bondhus from Lambda Literary praises Dan Vera's use of language in Speaking Wiri Wiri.- "…there is no gibberish to be found in Vera’s Letras Latinas-winning poetry collection. Rather, there […]
Date: April 25, 2013
Dan O'Brien applauds B.H. James' ability to write "a very American story" in Parnucklian for Chocolate.- "This story has the chaotic rumble of human beings in a jarring sequence of […]
Date: April 25, 2013
Julie Swarstad Johnson praises Nicole Stellon O'Donnell's Steam Laundry for it's poems that "soar with rich figurative language and inventive description".- "This unique debut collection presents not only images worth […]
Date: April 24, 2013
Joshua Mensch calls the sonnets of Hilbert's All of You on the Good Earth "gorgeously constructed and brilliantly executed" and perhaps most importantly "great poetry." You'll want to read this […]
