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:
Masters Review loves Chris Tarry!
Date: March 17, 2015
Recently, Kim Winternheimer, writing for Masters Review, published a review of Chris Tarry's new story collection How To Carry Bigfoot Home, and she sang Chris' praises. “Tarry’s work is lighthearted, […]
Prism Magazine lauds What Does A House Want?
Date: March 17, 2015
Last month, Connie T. Braun, writing for Prism Magazine, published a review of Gary Geddes' poetry collection, What Does A House Want?: Selected Poems, and perfectly captured Gary's briliance. “This […]
Pop City Media explores the essence of Celeste Gainey’s the GAFFER
Date: March 4, 2015
"Gainey’s first full-length poetry collection, the GAFFER, combines reflections on her lighting career with childhood memories and gender bending to illuminate the emergence of a female gaffer in the 1970s… […]
Colorado Poets Center picks David Mason’s brain
Date: March 3, 2015
Recently, the Colorado Poets Center published the Winter 2015 issue of their publication, The Colorado Poet, featuring an interview with David Mason, Red Hen author of Ludlow and Sea Salt, […]
Ellen Meeropol talks shop on Necessary Fiction!
Date: March 2, 2015
Last week, Ellen Meeropol posted an essay on Necessary Fiction detailing the fascinating process of the research she did while writing her new novel On Hurricane Island, from learning the […]
Northeast Public Radio interviews Ellen Meeropol!
Date: March 2, 2015
Recently, Joe Donahue of Northeast Public Radio interviewed Ellen Meeropol about her new novel, On Hurricane Island. Give it a listen
The Recorder is enthralled by On Hurricane Island!
Date: March 2, 2015
Last week, Tinky Weisblat, writing for The Recorder, wrote a review of Ellen Meeropol's On Hurricane Island, praising Ellen's ability to combine a critique of modern society with a great […]
World Literature Today can’t get enough of Ruin!
Date: March 2, 2015
Recently, Melissa Aadmo, writing for World Literature Today, published a review of Adrianne Kalfopoulou's Ruin: Essays in Exilic Living, praising the "sharp, lyrical" style of Adrianne's writing and singing her […]
World Literature Today loves The Meaning of Names’ timeless message!
Date: February 27, 2015
Recently, Biljana D. Obradović, writing for World Literature today, reviewed Karen Shoemaker's novel, The Meaning of Names, and had great things to say about what the book can teach its […]
Poetry Northwest loves Burn This House!
Date: January 28, 2015
Recently, Poetry Northwest published a review of Kelly Davio's Burn This House, and they had great things to say about Kelly's use of sound and rhythm. "Clearly Davio is a […]