The Long Fight to Decolonize Book Research
Date: June 3, 2020
Kristen Millares Young on Learning from Makah Tradition I am zipped into a tent on my friend’s beachfront lawn. Caring for her mom and kids, she has a full house, […]
News & Reviews
News:
Tracing the Fractures: A Conversation with Kristen Millares Young
Date: June 2, 2020
I don’t remember when or how Kristen Millares Young and I became friends, but I know it happened in Coast Salish territory, specifically Seattle, where she lives and I left. Subduction, her debut novel […]
April 2020 Reads for the Rest of Us
Date: June 2, 2020
Ms. Magazine Ms. Feminist Know-It-All features Subduction! In this utterly unique and important first novel, Young examines themes of love, intrusion, loss, community and trust against a backdrop of a […]
On Diaspora, Encounter, and Emotional Restitution
Date: June 2, 2020
There are a lot of moving, shifting pieces that comprise Kristen Millares Young’s stunning debut novel, Subduction; its characters are equal parts voyeurs and participants in their own unraveling, and the Pacific […]
Literary Events Go Virtual in the Time of COVID-19
Date: June 2, 2020
Kristen Millares Young was preparing for a number of events this spring to support her novel Subduction. Now, she’s in a very different position — one of many writers lacking one […]
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 […]
‘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.
Reviews:
Wandering Spirit: ASU’s Cynthia Hogue is haunted and inspired by time spent in New Orleans” (Tucson Weekly)”
Date: March 16, 2020
In the lead-up to the 2011 Tucson Book Festival, Jarret Keene published this review of Cynthia Hogue’s Or Consequence–in the Tucson Weekly (10 March 2011).
Mary Jo Salter reviews About Face
Date: March 16, 2020
Gazette Net commends On Hurricane Island for the questions it poses about freedom!
Date: March 16, 2020
Steve Pfarrer of Gazette Net explores questions On Hurricane Island brings to the table: “Told from the perspective of a number of other characters, from both sides of the country’s political divide, […]
Review of BECOMING LYLA DORE
Date: March 16, 2020
Reviewed by Cindy Hochman from Skullwise Cat (page 69) “Teri Youmans Grimm’s account is as ambitious and seductive as Lyla Dore herself. With poems that unfold as grandly as scenes from the […]
David Mason’s Book Reviewed by The Dark Horse Magazine
Date: March 16, 2020
Sea Salt by David Mason was reviewed by The Dark Horse in their Autumn/Winter 2015 issue. It’s pretty exciting to read such a great review all the way from Scotland: “Reading Sea Salt is to […]
The Los Angeles Times, December 28, 2008
Date: March 16, 2020
Describing people, creating them from the ground up, is a slippery thing. They don’t stand still, like objects. Every fresh breeze, new thought, distant sound sets them trembling like leaves […]
New Pages Raves about If Not For This
Date: March 16, 2020
Jason Hess writes for New Pages, applauding If Not For This for its poignancy. “Pete Fromm’s If Not For This was the most moving novel I read in 2014…Fromm packs a lifetime […]
New Pages calls Andrea’s work a poetic fusion
Date: March 16, 2020
Katie Rensch reviews Andrea Scarpino’s book of poetry Once, Then in New Pages, and commends its tender language. “These poems are intensely observational and perceptive…Whether describing the death of a childhood apple tree […]
Laurie Blauner reviews American Fractal
Date: March 16, 2020
American Fractal Laurie Blauner. Red Hen (CDC, dist.), $18.95 (104p) ISBN 978-1-59709-130-5 In Timothy Green’s appropriately titled American Fractal a whole vision is created from fragments of American myths, family, […]
More world than we can ever know”
Date: March 16, 2020
and a timely ghazal from Tasmania