Maurya Simon’s Voetica Page: Poetry Spoken
Date: March 16, 2020
News & Reviews
News:
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: […]
Silverstein & Me featured in Playboy
Date: March 16, 2020
Elise Paschen Interviewed by Edward Byrne
Date: March 16, 2020
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram Featured on The Drunken Odyssey
Date: March 16, 2020
Lillian-Yvonne, author of
Cerise Press talks with Susan Thomas
Date: March 16, 2020
Dop Dominates
Date: March 16, 2020
Gary Dop's first poetry collection, Father, Child, Water, has only been out for two months and is already breaking ground in the literary world. In a feat virtually unheard of […]
Karren Gettert Shoemaker’s The Meaning of Names is Omaha Public Library’s 2014 Omaha Reads selection!
Date: March 16, 2020
Omaha Public Library recently announced that Karen Gettert Shoemaker's new novel The Meaning of Names is the 2014 Omaha Reads Selection! Each year, Omaha Public Library encourages the community to […]
Date Change for Red Hen Awards
Date: March 16, 2020
Save the date for upcoming fundraiser!
Date: March 16, 2020
Reviews:
Booklist features review of Helen Benedict’s THE GOOD DEED!
Date: March 6, 2024
Benedict’s true-to-life novel resonates, particularly in the characters’ moments of fortitude in the face of brutal experiences of heartbreak and loss.
MAINCREST MEDIA Book Review of MacLeish Sq.
Date: February 29, 2024
MacLeish Sq. is a haunting and lyrical novel that blurs the boundaries between reality and illusion, present and past; Dennis Must explores the power of memory, guilt, and redemption in […]
Library Journal features review of Francesca Bell’s poetry collection, WHAT SMALL SOUND!
Date: February 28, 2024
Following 2019’s multi-award finalist Bright Stain, poet/translator Bell returns with a second collection focusing largely on women and the issues they face (many poems deal with abortion and rape), while […]
RHINO Magazine features review of Max Sessner’s WHOEVER DROWNED HERE, translated by Francesca Bell!
Date: February 28, 2024
Once upon a time many years ago I taught in Germany, not far from the Harz Mountains, haunt of the Brothers Grimm and Heinrich Heine. To my surprise my students […]
Bookworm for Kids blog recommends TREE SPIRITS (2nd Edition) by Louise Wannier!
Date: February 21, 2024
Today’s read… Tree Spirits by Louise Wannier Today’s read heads into the direction of creativity and imagination. It was presented to me as an unique, nonfiction read…and I’m expecting it […]
MomReadIt blog recommends Louise Wannier’s TREE SPIRITS (2nd Edition) as a “STEM Books to Explore”!
Date: February 21, 2024
I’m back with some new books to explore fun STEM concepts. I really miss having a Discovery Club at my library… maybe I’ll use these as a way to gauge […]
Publishers Weekly features review of Helen Benedict’s THE GOOD DEED!
Date: February 14, 2024
Benedict revisits the terrain of her nonfiction account Map of Hope and Sorrow (with Eyad Awwadawnan) for a complex and heartbreaking story of Syrians living at a refugee camp on the Greek […]
Dear Edna Sloane on Kirkus Review
Date: February 6, 2024
A restless millennial editor seeks connection with a former literary starlet in this epistolary novel. Read more here.
Katie Lawrence describes that Cheri Johnson’s ANNIKA ROSE both “disturbs and absorbs” in her review for the Library Journal!
Date: January 31, 2024
“Full of eerie atmospheric writing and many unanswered questions, poet Johnson’s fiction debut both disturbs and absorbs. Annika Rose is 17 and living in the middle of nowhere in northern […]
Geoff Page reviews latest collection of essays by David Mason, author of PACIFIC LIGHT, for Australian Book Review!
Date: January 24, 2024
Fluid states of being Essays on and by David Mason by Geoff Page American/Australian poet, David Mason, is also a verse novelist, librettist, and essayist. His latest collection of essays, Incarnation and […]