Camille Dungy’s poem Cleaning” named among the 100 Best African American Poems”
Date: March 16, 2020
News & Reviews
News:
Cooling Board Nominated for NAACP Image Award
Date: March 16, 2020
William Trowbridge wins a Pushcart Prize!
Date: March 16, 2020
No Other Paradise a Contemporary Poetry Best Seller for the week of August 29
Date: March 16, 2020
Spheres of Disturbance is an Oregon Book Award finalist!
Date: March 16, 2020
Recently, Literary Arts announced the finalists for the Oregon Book Awards, and we are delighted that Amy Schutzer's new novel Spheres of Disturbance is among the finalists for the Ken […]
Elise Paschen author of Bestiary in Wall Street Journal
Date: March 16, 2020
Annie Finch interview
Date: March 16, 2020
KUCI- Writers on Writing
Date: March 16, 2020
Maurya Simon’s Voetica Page: Poetry Spoken
Date: March 16, 2020
Karen Shoemaker’s The Meaning of Names” is on the recommended reading list for The Humanities Nebraska Governor’s Lecture 2015!”
Date: March 16, 2020
From Karen’s Facebook post: Check this out: On October 1 at the Holland Center in Omaha, Humanities Nebraska hosts British scholar David Reynolds, who will speak on “World War One: […]
Reviews:
The Yellow Door” is a powerful indictment and a celebration for poet
Date: March 16, 2020
Poet, Michael Dennis, reviewed Amy Uyematsu’s The Yellow Door on his blog recently. For his daily book of poetry, he focused on how The Yellow Door shares lessons that we need to remember and […]
Philip Metres at Behind The Lines: Poetry, War, & Peacemaking
Date: March 16, 2020
“The poems have a sardonic, lacerating edge, in the mode of the best confessional poems which admit to the political (Lowell, Plath, Wojahn, etc.).”
Food Tank features EAT LESS WATER
Date: March 16, 2020
Florencia Ramirez’s Eat Less Water was listed as one of the 22 Books for Winter 2018 by Food Tank, an innovative team focused on rethinking the food system and alleviating world hunger. Eva Perroni […]
Line Assembly marvels at Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise
Date: March 16, 2020
Line Assembly applauds But a Storm Is Blowing From a Paradise.- But a Storm Is Blowing From a Paradise “explodes with dream and bear and body and city and money and no-money and […]
Michael Turner’s review on Growler
Date: March 16, 2020
“Many of Green’s speakers seem to desire to disappear, to re-work the equation for subtraction. It is the frustration caused by a world that fails to allow disappearance which provides […]
Realizing Queer Kinship
Date: March 16, 2020
Martha K. Davis’ SCISSORS, PAPER, STONE was recently reviewed by Gertrude Press’ Jess Travers. The novel, narrated in alternating chapters by Catherine, her adopted daughter Min, and Min’s best friend […]
Shelf Awareness Gives The Mighty Currawongs A Gold Star
Date: March 16, 2020
“With his mastery of language and eye for detail, Doyle’s characters always feel authentic, and their ups and downs are realistically proportioned. His gift for finding the sublime in even […]
Stephen Corey reviews The Bob and Weave
Date: March 16, 2020
The Bob and Weave Jim Peterson. Red Hen (CDC, dist.), $16.95 (120p) ISBN 1-888996-65-X Jim Peterson’s poems are filled with the things of this world– its horses, hands, stones, and […]
Father, Child, Water by Gary Dop gets reviewed Poetry Magazine
Date: March 16, 2020
Recommended and briefly reviewed by Eduardo C. Corral in Poetry Magazine. The poems in Father, Child, Water by Gary Dop are funny, wicked, and poignant. These three qualities are visible […]
Poetic Paschen
Date: March 16, 2020
“The Chicago poet has spread the good wordings via book, CD, and subway.”