TriCornerNews: “My Heart Cannot Accept It All” poem by Susan Kinsolving
Date: June 30, 2020
Forgive yourself for thinking smallfor cooking soups, ignoring blight.The mind cannot contain it all
News & Reviews
News:
Giving Compass: #HalfMyDAF: A Challenge To Donors To Unlock Capital For A Reimagined World
Date: June 30, 2020
Launched in early May, #HalfMyDAF is the brainchild of philanthropists David and Jennifer Risher. With more than $120 billion sitting in Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs) at a time when nonprofits are facing additional obstacles to […]
San Francisco Chronicle: Donor-advised funds are stacking up cash. A former Amazon executive wants it given away faster
Date: June 30, 2020
David Risher and his wife, Jennifer, are urging other tech philanthropists to put money sitting in charitable vehicles to work at nonprofits that need it. And they’re putting $1 million […]
Psychology Today: Wrestling with Wealth
Date: June 30, 2020
When I got a job offer to be a campus recruiter at Microsoft in 1991, I had no idea how much good fortune was heading my way. I was 25 […]
GMR: Francisco Aragón on The Social Distance Reading Series
Date: June 30, 2020
Francisco Aragón is the son of Nicaraguan immigrants. He’s the author of After Rubén, Glow of Our Sweat and Puerta del Sol, as well as editor of The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry. He directs Letras […]
Literary North interviews Didi Jackson
Date: June 30, 2020
Didi Jackson is a terrific poet. She writes accessible poems that are packed with startling imagery, art, precise language, and delicate emotions. She manages to make the shocking and heart-breaking […]
Seven Days: Poet Didi Jackson on Grief, Recovery and New Book ‘Moon Jar’
Date: June 30, 2020
Didi Jackson‘s book of poetry, Moon Jar, was released on April 21 — the day before her 50th birthday and during a global pandemic. The book contains several years’ worth of […]
Sound and Valley News: Coffee Break with Mary Odden
Date: June 30, 2020
Alaskan author Mary Odden discusses her new book, Mostly Water: Reflections Rural and North, an essay compilation that form a memoir of life in the 49th state.
Author2Author with Aimee Liu
Date: June 30, 2020
Bill welcomes novelist, essayist, and teacher Aimee Liu to the show. Aimee is the author of numerous bestselling novels as well as nonfiction books on medical and psychological topics. Her […]
The Booklist Reader: Glorious Boy
Date: June 30, 2020
Liu’s eponymous “glorious boy” exists at the intersection of families, communities, countries, cultures—and, for a while, life and death. His spirited, adventurous parents—Shep, a British doctor obsessed with the healing […]
Reviews:
Booklist reviews Death of a Circus
Date: April 13, 2009
Chandra Prasad Death of a Circus. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $18.95 (272p) ISBN 978-1-59709-024-7What city-weary soul hasn’t thought of running away to join the circus? That’s the dream of Lor […]
David St. John reviews Daphne’s Lot
Date: April 13, 2009
Chris Abani Daphne’s Lot. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $18.95 (112p) ISBN 1-888996-62-5Chris Abani’s DAPHNE’S LOT is an absolute tour de force! The title poem is an exceptionally poignant novella in […]
Ishmael Reed reviews The Dancer and the Dance
Date: April 13, 2009
Jack Foley The Dancer and the Dance. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $19.95 (280p) ISBN 978-1-59709-094-0I think that many critics are into duplication, willing to accept, meekly, any orthodoxy. Jack Foley […]
Debra Kang Dean reviews Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem
Date: April 13, 2009
Mitchell Douglas Cooling Board: A Long Playing Poem. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $19.95 (112p) ISBN 978-1-59709-140-4Cooling Board, Mitchell Douglas' debut collection, is a labor of love and gives expression to […]
Chalmers Johnson reviews Common Sense for the Twenty-First Century
Date: April 13, 2009
Common Sense for the Twenty-First Century Blase Bonpane. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $16.95 (272p) ISBN 1-888996-56-0Your new book is an absolute jewel. The commentaries on everything from Haiti to Falluja […]
Small Press Bookwatch reviews The Common Fire
Date: April 13, 2009
The Common Fire Shelley Savren. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $12.95 (88p) ISBN 978-1-888996-96-8Winner of the 1994 John David Johnson Memorial Poetry Award, Shelley Savren is the recipient of nine California […]
Rachel Richmond reviews Cold Angel of Mercy
Date: April 13, 2009
Cold Angel of Mercy Amy Randolph. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $11.95 (72p) ISBN 1-888996-55-2A nature-touched spirit penetrates Amy Randolph's book of thirty-eight poems. These poems are filled with dreams of […]
Phoebe Journal reviews Cartographies
Date: April 13, 2009
Cartographies Maurya Simon. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $18.95 (104p) ISBN 978-1-59709-387-3 Maurya Simon's resume reads like that of a literary superstar. Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1990 and the […]
Steven Hansen reviews Burning Tulips
Date: April 13, 2009
Burning Tulips Diane Payne. Red Hen (CDC, dist.) $15.95 (156p) ISBN 978-1-888996-89-0The terms 'memoir' and 'novel' are not as easily blended as PB&J; nor do they make half as good […]
Anthony Julian Tamburri reviews Books and Rough Business
Date: April 13, 2009
Books and Rough Business Tullio Pironti. Red Hen (CDC, dist.), $20.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-59709-129-9Tullio Pironti's Books and Rough Business is, on the one hand, a wonderful metaphor about the publishing […]