CNN: Tell us what you’re reading right now
Date: June 2, 2020
Reading literature can give us a place to turn right now — and not just because it’s comforting. It’s because it helps us grapple with enormous ruptures in time. There’s […]
News & Reviews
News:
‘A Community Of Desperation’ Finding Sympathy And Solidarity In Dorothea Lange
Date: June 2, 2020
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Photographer Dorothea Lange had an eye for capturing what was going on around her – the Great Depression, Japanese American internment camps during World War II. […]
The Harvard Review Online features “Found Poem: Pocket Geology”
Date: June 2, 2020
Atop the Earth’s mantle, rock moving: Continents are milk skin floating on cocoa. A restless interior sweeps them along. In trenches minerals decay— at the core landmasses digest themselves. The crust does not movein one […]
The Yale Review features “Song with Day Glo & Jello”
Date: June 2, 2020
Hulky & afloat on seas of parkingthe old Plaza dated from the fifties— sold Day Glo Ice & jelly […]
Versifying | Collection Development: Poetry
Date: June 2, 2020
Library Journal features Tess Taylor’s Rift Zone and Felicia Zamora’s Body of Render.
‘This Is a Californian Feeling’: Poet Tess Taylor Captures Life on the Brink in ‘Rift Zone’
Date: June 2, 2020
Shortly before the state of California ordered its citizens to retreat indoors, I met up with poet Tess Taylor for a hike on a steep hill near her home. It was one […]
El Cerrito poet, NPR correspondent Tess Taylor pens new books
Date: June 2, 2020
EL CERRITO — Local poet Tess Taylor has recently released her fourth book, had one of its poems published in the New York Times and wrote an opinion piece for […]
A Reading List For The Social Distancing Era, From Poet Tess Taylor
Date: June 2, 2020
In a series, various writers share what have they been reading while sheltering in place. Today, NPR poetry reviewer Tess Taylor lists what is helping her to get through.
New York Times featuring Tess Taylor’s poetry!
Date: June 2, 2020
Poem: I Gave My Love a Story Selected by Naomi Shihab Nye
Zyzzyva’s “The Intimacy of Breath” Essay by Tess Taylor
Date: June 2, 2020
Here is the strange thing: I was already writing poems about the precariousness of California. I’d been writing them for ten years, since I moved back from New York and came […]
Reviews:
THE NEW YORK TIMES reviews FOUR Percival Everett Collections!
Date: December 16, 2024
Huge thanks to book critic Dwight Garner for your thorough, generous review of Percival Everett’s poetry collections, including re:f (gesture), The Book of Training by Colonel Hap Thompson, Sonnets for […]
NH Librarians Recommend MEMENTO MORI by Eunice Hong on CHECK THIS OUT at NHPR!
Date: December 12, 2024
This episode of “Check This Out” from New Hampshire Public Radio features local librarians discussing their favorite books of 2024! This to the full episode to hear what they thought […]
The Gay and Lesbian Review reviews Jason Schneiderman’s SELF PORTRAIT OF ICARUS AS A COUNTRY ON FIRE
Date: December 3, 2024
AS A POET AGES, he’s often faced with several choices. He can keep doing what he has always done, or he can, by seriously confronting himself, seek another voice. Jason […]
Publishers Weekly reviews Didi Jackson’s MY INFINITY
Date: November 19, 2024
“I am good with secrets,” Jackson confesses early in her subtle latest (after Moon Jar). She makes good on that statement in poems that detail the secrets of the departed, including […]
Washington Independent Review of Books reviews Didi Jackson’s MY INFINITY
Date: October 31, 2024
In My Infinity (Red Hen Press), Didi Jackson employs a lyrical grace and intimate tone as she seeks transcendence, even while acknowledging that not all wounds may heal. She explores personal concessions […]
World Literature Today reviews Didi Jackson’s MY INFINITY
Date: October 31, 2024
My Infinity is a volume that puts Didi Jackson’s talent on full display. This is only her second poetry volume (the first, Moon Jar, was published in 2020), but it reads like […]
The Manhattan Review reviews Susan Rich’s BLUE ATLAS
Date: October 15, 2024
Blue Atlas is an absorbing and heart-wrenching collection that revolves around the poet’s decision, thirty years back, to have an abortion rather than go full term with an unplanned pregnancy. As […]
Anchorage Daily News reviews Thomas McGuire’s THE CURVE OF EQUAL TIME
Date: October 15, 2024
Book Review: Thomas McGuire’s second novel is as lyrical, intelligent and suspenseful as his first By Nancy Lord Updated: September 14, 2024Published: September 14, 2024 “The Curve of Equal Time” By […]
North of Oxford reviews THE BEARABLE SLANT OF LIGHT by Lynnell Edwards
Date: October 1, 2024
By g emil reutter There is much involved when dealing with mental illness in a family member. There is always the hope for a turnaround, a recovery and in some […]
Hyperallergic reviews Didi Jackson’s MY INFINITY
Date: September 17, 2024
If Hilma af Klint’s monumental paintings could speak, what would they say? Didi Jackson answers this with a resonant collection of poems, several written from the perspective of the Swedish […]