ANIMAL WIFE by Lara Ehrlich featured on Jen Campbell’s YouTube!
Date: February 24, 2021
In which I chat about lots of new books. Grab a cup of tea and join me! Watch the full video here!
News & Reviews
News:
Animal Wife featured & referenced in Electric Literature’s recent article.
Date: February 24, 2021
In a column for The Cut titled “How Am I?” Amil Niazi paints a grim picture of pandemic working motherhood. In the middle of her realistic itinerary piece about care of two young children while […]
Craft Literary’s interview with ANIMAL WIFE author Lara Ehrlich!
Date: February 24, 2021
The woman on the cover of Lara Ehrlich’s debut short story collection appears to be almost airlifted from the 1950s—she could be an actor from The Donna Reed Show or perhaps a […]
Jennifer Risher featured on THE STACKING BENJAMINS Podcast!
Date: February 24, 2021
What’s the next step after you finally “make it”? While it’s easy to scoff at the problems of people who are financially set, it’s not uncommon to lose a sense […]
Large feature of Susan Kinsolving in the Hartford Courant!
Date: February 22, 2021
Many of Kinsolving’s poems relate to science. Her first book focused on horticulture and floral metaphor. The poems in another book examined aphasia and dementia’s linguistic enigma. Her most recent […]
Tobi Harper interviewed on Brain Hackers podcast!
Date: February 8, 2021
Tobi Harper is Deputy Director of Red Hen Press, Founder and Editor of Quill (a queer publishing series), Publisher of The Los Angeles Review, and Instructor for the UCLA Extension […]
Tess Taylor featured on CNN!
Date: February 3, 2021
Before the pandemic hit, playwright Matthew-Lee Erlbach was working on a play about American labor movements between 1890 and 1920 — an era that many associate with seamstresses jumping out […]
TEA BY THE SEA listed on Electric Lit!
Date: January 25, 2021
My mom says every mother needs a daughter. It’s not that she doesn’t love and appreciate her two sons. My middle brother knows best how to comfort her in times […]
Tess Taylor’s RIFT ZONE longlisted for the Believer Book Awards!
Date: January 20, 2021
Each year, the editors of The Believer present awards to the works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry they find to be the best written and most underappreciated. For the first time ever, […]
Jennifer Risher featured in Forbes Magazine!
Date: January 20, 2021
Before Covid hit, my family often traveled to Germany. There, we found “Asian” restaurants in many small German towns. I had to chuckle at the generalization. Did these restaurants serve […]
Reviews:
#Throwback review of Gaylord Brewer’s WORSHIP THE PIG!
Date: December 2, 2020
It’s difficult for me to find comparisons to these poems. There are qualities that bring to mind Milosz’s humble prophesies or the earthy divinities of Robert Bly. Some of Brewer’s […]
WAVE IF YOU CAN SEE ME, Susan Ludvigson’s poetry collection reviewed by ZYZZYVA
Date: November 30, 2020
Ludvigson’s poems are quiet and linguistically unadorned, a testament to the starkness of bereavement. Despite the simplicity of her language, Ludvigson dedicates many of her poems to the careful description […]
THE WILDERNESS featured in Green Mountains Review
Date: November 30, 2020
Maurya Simon’s The Wilderness: New and Selected Poems 1980-2016 (Red Hen Press 2018, 218 pages) represents a life of questioning and perception, whether the scene is a backyard or a street in […]
Alaskan Blog 49 Writers sheds light on EVERY ATOM by Erin Coughlin Hollowell
Date: November 18, 2020
Reading Erin Coughlin Hollowell’s Every Atom, a book of poems about her aging mother, reminds me of my grandmother’s history. Like Gracie, Hollowell was her mother’s youngest, born when her […]
Chelsea Catherine’s SUMMER OF THE CICADAS given praise in review from Amos Lassen!
Date: November 4, 2020
There are some books that become more than just reads, rather reading them becomes an experience. That is just how I felt with “Summer of the Cicadas”.
Thoughtful input of Jennifer Risher’s WE NEED TO TALK: A MEMOIR ABOUT WEALTH from Washington Independent Review of Books
Date: October 28, 2020
Before delving into her own experience, however, Risher introduces the topic of wealth by depicting the expectations, gratitude, and worries that come with striking it rich. But hers is not […]
F(r)iction Lit gives ANIMAL WIFE a glowing review!
Date: October 28, 2020
What captivated me most of all was how Lara Ehrlich writes her characters. The stories feature women at different stages of life or different situations, and yet they feel familiar. […]
Thanks for the shoutout World Wide Work!
Date: October 22, 2020
UNDER NUSHAGAK BLUFF by Mia C. Heavener, SUBDUCTION by Kristen Millares Young, and SUMMER OF THE CICADAS by Chelsea Catherine were all featured on the newsletter World Wide Work: Books, […]
LA Review of Books analyzes and reviews Tess Taylor’s thoughtful works
Date: October 19, 2020
“The poems in Rift Zone exist in a moment before rupture, an overhang of historic land fractured by histories revised and erased. Taylor magnifies these tensions when she recalls the instabilities of […]
Joshua Rivkin’s “Suitor” reviewed and adored by 15 Bytes!
Date: October 12, 2020
“Poetry is Joshua Rivkin’s art, but he approaches it with the keen observational powers of a scientist. Children learn to model themselves after their parents, but will often closely watch […]