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:
KIRKUS: Tea by the Sea
Date: July 1, 2020
A young mother goes on a quest to track down the father of her child, who abducted their baby daughter shortly after her birth. When Plum Valentine is in high […]
Publisher Weekly: The Likely World
Date: June 30, 2020
This skillful twist on the addiction narrative is worth a look.
RHINO: reviews After Rubén
Date: June 30, 2020
In the essay that caps his latest poetry collection, After Rubén, Francisco Aragón traces his relationship with the Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío (1867-1916). From the initial gift of a handful […]
The Nonconformist: Sugar, Smoke, Song by Reema Rajbanshi review
Date: June 30, 2020
Many readers of this review may or may not be aware of the rasa theory, but it is maintained that classic works of literature created within the boundaries of what is today […]
Anchorage Daily News: Review of Mostly Water
Date: June 30, 2020
The best memoirs invite us into the interesting minds of writers, carry us into territories we might not have tread ourselves and leave us with new perspectives on life. Some […]
Denali Sunrise: Review of Mostly Water
Date: June 30, 2020
Water flows over and through the pebbles on the cover of Mostly Water: Reflections Rural and North. Water connects. Mary Odden, a long-time resident of rural Alaska, has graced us with this […]
Writers’ Voices: Aimee Liu Sets
Date: June 30, 2020
In the South Asian archipelago known as the Andaman Islands, aboriginal tribes thrived for 60,000 years before the onset of British colonialism nearly wiped them out. Best selling novelist Aimee […]
Washington Independent Review of Books: Glorious Boy
Date: June 30, 2020
Aimee Liu’s fourth novel, Glorious Boy — a family drama set against the backdrop of World War II and the rumblings of Indian independence from British colonialist rule — is big, ambitious, […]
Booktrib: Family and Priorities Collide in Her Sister’s Tattoo
Date: June 30, 2020
This is a powerful story of political activism, family betrayal, allegiance and love. When two sisters get arrested during a Vietnam War protest in 1968, they must decide where their […]
Sugar, Smoke, Song by Reema Rajbanshi: A book review by Moazzam Sheikh
Date: June 30, 2020
Many readers of this review may or may not be aware of the rasa theory, but it is maintained that classic works of literature created within the boundaries of what is today […]