Read Your Way Around the World
Date: July 15, 2020
With travel plans cancelled for the foreseeable future, we’re all looking for new ways to feel transported from our homes, without putting our families at risk. That’s where these book […]
News & Reviews
News:
Her Sister’s Tattoo on The Bill Newman Show April 13th 2020
Date: July 14, 2020
Ellen Meeropol speaks with the local North Hampton news radio on the Bill Newman Show to discuss the book launch of Her Sister’s Tattoo. Listen in for an inside scoop […]
Howard Zinn Book Fair: Books to the Barricades Ellen Meeropol, Her Sister’s Tattoo
Date: July 14, 2020
Her Sister’s Tattoo begins in the heat of August 1968, as sisters Esther and Rosa Cohen, daughters of union activists, march against the war in Vietnam. When a young man […]
Gridlock: A Precursor to Her Sister’s Tattoo
Date: July 13, 2020
“My sister Ruth showed up on day four of the blackout, the day we began to suspect this wasn’t an ordinary grid failure. There had been no blizzard, no fragility […]
The Page 69 Test: Her Sister’s Tattoo
Date: July 13, 2020
Ellen Meeropol is the author of the novels: Kinship of Clover (Women’s National Book Association Great Group Read, and literary fiction finalist for the Best Book Award), On Hurricane Island (semifinalist for the Massachusetts […]
THE SKIN OF MEANING by Keith Flynn featured on the North Carolina Writers’ Network
Date: July 13, 2020
“For some time we’ve been waiting for a poet to appear who could adequately confront the vast and deliriously complex matter of the USA—its people, its art, its material and […]
Without Books: Sebastian Matthews
Date: July 13, 2020
Sebastian Matthews is the author of a memoir, In My Father’s Footsteps, and two books of poetry, We Generous and Miracle Day. His upcoming memoir Beyond Repair: Living in a […]
Lara Ehrlich Finds Inspiration in Fairy Tales in Her Debut Collection, Animal Wife
Date: July 13, 2020
Lara Ehrlich had a busy spring as director of marketing for June’s International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven, Conn. The 250-event schedule had to be completely reimagined as a scaled-down, […]
The Rumpus: Outsiders Looking In
Date: July 8, 2020
I met Kristen Millares Young at AWP’s annual writing conference earlier this year. I sidled up, thrust my advance copy of Subduction in front of her to sign, and she said, “It’s […]
Keith Flynn featured on Chewing The Gristle in conversation with Tim Conroy
Date: July 8, 2020
In this episode of Chewing The Gristle, Poets Al Black and Tim Conroy chat with the imaginative Keith Flynn— poet, founder and managing editor of the Asheville Poetry Review. Watch […]
Reviews:
Chopper! Chopper! is Dramatic and Bold””
Date: March 27, 2014
In a review of Veronica Reyes' Chopper! Chopper!, the poetry collection gets lauded as an "intimate portrait of her East L.A. neighborhood, family and local haunts with daring rhythm and […]
Gary Geddes Compared to Politico-poet Greats
Date: March 27, 2014
George Elliot Clarke of The Chronicle Herald calls Gary Geddes "proudly a political poet, though one whose honed lyrics ask for introspection and contemplation," and compares him to other celebrated […]
Patter, the most important collection of poetry published this year””
Date: March 27, 2014
Luke Fiddler of The Economy Magazine gives a glowing review to Douglas Kearney's new book, Patter. He states, "By all measures, Patter scrapes vertiginous heights; it’s a magisterial study of […]
Dennis Must is Beyond Ordinary
Date: March 27, 2014
Dactyl Review examines The World's Smallest Bible, the new novel by Dennis Must, calling him a "searching writer, able to transcribe madness and instability, the wrack of obsession and the […]
Jessica Piazza’s Contemporary Collection
Date: March 27, 2014
Timothy Otte of Hazel and Wren recently praised Jessica Piazza's Interrobang as "free flowing and contemporary, yet formally precise, employing the same linguistic tricks that mark sonnets written by the […]
Impressive Review for Pause, Traveler
Date: March 6, 2014
Pause, Traveler by Erin Couglin Hollowell was recently reviewed by Kris Bigalk from Poetry Northwest, calling it impressive with "elements of story and song, evoked through a uniquely contemporary lens." […]
Poetry Northwest Asks You to Put Your Trust in Nicelle Davis
Date: March 6, 2014
Poetry Northwest asks the readers to put their trust in the words of Nicelle Davis in their latest review of Becoming Judas. Alexis Vergalla proclaims, "I'll go back again, because […]
The Ogre’s Wife Causes Jealousy
Date: March 6, 2014
In a recent review of Ron Koertge's The Ogre's Wife, Neil McCarthy (from his namesake blog, Neil McCarthy Poetry) expresses his jealousy and high regard for Koertge's fantastical poetry collection. […]
Neil McCarthy Praises the Humor in Calamity Joe
Date: March 6, 2014
Brendan Constantine's Calamity Joe received high praises for its humor and originality in Neil McCarthy's blog, Neil McCarthy Poetry. "It’s only a matter of time before someone coins an adjective […]
Interrobang featured in Boxcar Poetry Review
Date: March 6, 2014
Paula Mendoza recently wrote an analytical and positive review of Jessica Piazza's Interrobang for the Boxcar Poetry Review. Mendoza writes, "Piazza reads like the best hip-hop; verbal acrobatics that tempers […]