Susan Rich, Author Of BLUE ATLAS Featured On The Slowdown
Date: July 8, 2026
[Susan Rich]’s poem looks up, listens, and leans into the many things we can become open to by finding closeness with these familiar and strange animals.
Date: July 8, 2026
[Susan Rich]’s poem looks up, listens, and leans into the many things we can become open to by finding closeness with these familiar and strange animals.
Date: July 2, 2026
Date: July 1, 2026
Finding true healing after grief requires intentional steps and the courage to integrate new practices into our daily lives. Award-winning author, entrepreneur, and executive coach Laing Rikkers shares how the […]
Date: June 29, 2026
She discusses “the realities behind America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
Date: June 29, 2026
“A conversation on mothering and the action of it, and how many of us are mothering outside our traditional knowledge of what it means to mother.”
Date: June 23, 2026
In the dark bunker where we are both trapped, my dad struggles against the chair he is roped to. He wriggles one arm free from beneath the ropes, reaching for […]
Date: June 15, 2026
Date: June 15, 2026
Date: June 9, 2026
“I really enjoyed the prose style of Kill Dick. I loved how the sentences are always on the move, manic & fast, constantly on to the next.”
Date: June 3, 2026
“I’ve been a drug addict since before I hit puberty. I guess this is what Susie Vogelman taught me about my addiction and my brother’s addiction. Just how simple the […]
Date: September 8, 2022
Judy Grahn’s Touching Creatures, Touching Spirit is a thought-provoking study of relationships between human and nonhuman creatures and spirits. It collects ten nonfiction essays, divided into three parts, with a vivid record […]
Date: August 22, 2022
“’So you think that you can live remote / from city streets paved with bullet casings, / mass shootings in churches, refugee mothers in cages,’ Pamela Uschuk questions in ‘A […]
Date: August 21, 2022
Boreal Books, founded and edited by Peggy Shumaker, a former Alaska writer laureate, has since 2008 been publishing exemplary poetry and prose by Alaskans. This summer it’s brought forth two […]
Date: August 9, 2022
“Inside their heads, humans are caught in a civil war between the little gleam of intelligence they want to believe is them and the animal which that spark of intelligence evolved to […]
Date: August 8, 2022
“Set in rural China during the 1970s, Ruyan Meng’s debut novel Only the Cat Knows is told from the point of view of a young factory worker married to a woman who […]
Date: August 4, 2022
“A bicycle on which to commute to work. A sewing machine with which to sew new clothes. Eggs, milk, and meat to cure his children of malnutrition. These are a […]
Date: August 3, 2022
The Discarded Life: Poems, by Adam Kirsch (Red Hen): “Do details matter?” asks the poet Adam Kirsch in his new collection The Discarded Life—and even if they don’t, the perspicuity […]
Date: August 3, 2022
Diane Thiel’s much-awaited anthology of poetry, Questions from Outer Space, is worth the wait. This collection is divided into four parts, each touching on a particular subject or idea that […]
Date: July 21, 2022
Diane Thiel is the author of eleven books of poetry, nonfiction, and creative writing pedagogy, and Questions from Outer Space (Red Hen Press, 2022) is her third collection of poems. I purchased […]
Date: July 21, 2022
Pamela Uschuk is, in my view, one of our country’s best poets. Her new book, REFUGEE, shows precisely why. Her poems rise up from careful craft, scattering beauty, detailed descriptions, merged […]