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.
News & Reviews
News:
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 […]
Lithub: Writing Place in a Time of Crisis
Date: June 4, 2020
Tess Taylor’s new poetry collection Rift Zone is published this month. She shares five books about writing place in a time of crisis.
Datebook: How Bay Area authors stay creative amid the coronavirus pandemic
Date: June 4, 2020
Poet Tess Taylor questioned what it means to be creative, when every day feels like a radical reinvention of life. “These days, helping myself and my family steer a way around sadness, […]
NY Times: We’re Doing What We Can to Keep Truckers on the Road
Date: June 4, 2020
LINCOLN, Neb. — My mother was born into a flu-stricken household at the height of the pandemic of 1918. Within minutes she was swaddled in a homemade quilt and placed […]
PSA: Francisco Aragón “1985”
Date: June 4, 2020
1985 Long and black, the streaksof gray, aflutter in the lightwind as she prepares to tell her story at the Federal Building:reaching into a tattered sackshe pulls out a doll […]
Chapter 16: The Skin of Meaning excerpt
Date: June 4, 2020
The Skin of Meaning He was late to the party and without directions,though his invitation was secure, and his instinctskeenly honed to an acceptable edge, and as we arewaiting to […]
Daily Poetry: Ascension
Date: June 4, 2020
Ascension Didi Jackson The blue jays lay claimto the raspberry busharriving in groups of four or five:one holds a rubied berry in its beakand feeds it up in the white […]
Lithub: ‘Almost Animal’ A Poem by Didi Jackson
Date: June 4, 2020
after Käthe Kollwitz I heard they no longer sew eyelids of the dead shut.At the morgue, I busied myself countingthe lacerations on my husband’s neck and wrists.I wore sunglasses and […]
VPR: ‘Between Abject Fear And Inexplicable Optimism’: Vt. Poets On The Pandemic
Date: June 4, 2020
Major Jackson: I’m fluctuating between abject fear and inexplicable optimism. Mitch Wertlieb: That’s poet Major Jackson, who lives in South Burlington. And you may have heard a bit of laughter […]
Reviews:
Hobart Pulp interviews Chelsea Clammer
Date: January 31, 2018
Thank you Hobart Pulp for this insightful interview with Chelsea Clammer, author of Circadian. “Essays seem to encourage digression and tangents, and you do such a great job of managing […]
The Baltimore Sun covers Ron Koertge
Date: January 29, 2018
Ron Koertge is in the news again, this time in The Baltimore Sun, for his poem “Negative Space,” which inspired the Oscar-nominated animation. “Porter, 36, who has been collaborating with […]
CBS Baltimore mentions Ron Koertge
Date: January 29, 2018
Big thank you to CBS Baltimore for not forgetting that "Negative Space," the Oscar-nominated animation, was inspired by Ron Koertge's prose poem of the same name.
Our Man at the Oscars”– SGVT covers Ron Koertge”
Date: January 29, 2018
Many thanks to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune for giving a shout-out to Ron Koertge, whose prose poem, "Negative Space," has been made into an Oscar-nominated short film. Thanks SGVT! […]
Bad Stories receives a starred review by Booklist
Date: January 18, 2018
We're excited that Steve Almond's Bad Stories is the recipient of a starred review by Booklist. The full review will appear in the February 15th edition of Booklist, but here's […]
CIRCADIAN gets rave review from Reader Views!
Date: January 18, 2018
Huge thanks to Reader Views for this fantastic review of Chelsey Clammer’s CIRCADIAN! “If you read just one essay collection this year, make it “Circadian” by Chelsey Clammer.” Read the […]
RAIN TAXI reviews HOW TO GET OVER
Date: January 4, 2018
Huge thanks to Rain Taxi for this fantastic review of t’ai freedom ford’s HOW TO GET OVER, calling it “a courageous and brilliant book… [that] interweaves personal life and American […]
CrossTown by Loren W. Cooper
Date: January 3, 2018
Straight out of the Bewitching Book Tour, blogwriter Anie wrote a snappy review of CrossTown by Loren W. Cooper. “
Gertrude Press praises THE DEAD GO TO SEATTLE
Date: December 5, 2017
Huge thanks to Lara Messersmith-Glavin for this rave review of Vivian Faith Prescott’s THE DEAD GO TO SEATTLE! “
Book Review: In June the Labyrinth
Date: December 4, 2017
Anne Kaier provides a deep look into the emotional depth of Cynthia Hogue’s In June the Labyrinth, citing “one of the more penetrating of ways to speak to the dead […]