IPPY-Winning Poets Speak Out
Date: June 5, 2020
This year’s IPPY Awards had 148 entries into our two categories: Poetry– General and Poetry–Specialty. We awarded a total of 11 medals to poetry books; two each of gold, silver, […]
News & Reviews
News:
Rattlecast: William Trowbridge
Date: June 4, 2020
Episode #39 welcomes former Missouri Poet Laureate William Trowbridge and has new book, Oldguy: Superhero—poems from which have been featured regularly in Rattle for years.
The Imagination Is Free: And So Is this Lecture
Date: June 4, 2020
David Mason gives a hypothetical “last lecture”!
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,
Reviews:
Far Afield
Date: December 3, 2010
http://community.livejournal.com/asianamlitfans/85138.html
Los Angeles Times Review for Kim Dower’s Air Kissing on Mars
Date: November 16, 2010
"Sensual and evocative, these poems traverse the chaos of everyday life with a light touch that can turn ironic and edgy without you even noticing it. Some are lyrical snapshots […]
Oregonian Review for Kim Dower’s Air Kissing on Mars
Date: November 16, 2010
"Air Kissing on Mars," is a collection that showcases Dower's funny, accessible, sneaky-profound poetry. She's more Billy Collins than John Ashbery and has some of the same sharp Southern California […]
Janice Eidus Review
Date: November 15, 2010
Check out this great review for Janice's newest book!
The Neglected Art and the Young American Poets
Date: November 11, 2010
The Neglected Art and the Young American PoetsJohn CotterA Gringo Like Me by Jennifer L. Knox Soft Skull Press, 2005, 95p, $13.95Lamp of the Body by Maggie Smith Red Hen […]
Texas Review Covers Dennis Must
Date: October 29, 2010
THE TEXAS REVIEW, Volume 30, Numbers 3&4, Fall Winter 2009Dennis Must's second story collection is stunning in its complexity, its variety, and its original, forceful treatment of universal themes. These […]
Island
Date: October 26, 2010
Island, by Jeanette Clough. Los Angeles, CA: Red Hen Press, 2007. Reviewed by Patricia Crane in Poetry International (2010, vol. 15 – 16), pp 399-400.If the physical world is the […]
Review from Cerise Press
Date: September 2, 2010
http://www.cerisepress.com/02/04/a-moral-education-give-eat-and-live-poems-of-avvaiyar
Cortland Review of NO OTHER PARADISE
Date: August 9, 2010
http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/48/index.html?ref=home
Living With Pain: Cynthia Hogue uses poetry to chronicle her dealing with arthritis””
Date: May 5, 2010