News:

Best of 2023: Our Favorite Indie Books

Date: January 9, 2024

Combing through our Best of Indie list is always an interesting end-of-year exercise. Which trend percolated through our sample size of 100 books in 2023? Stewardship, a call for protection of […]

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Reviews:

Rain Taxi on Modern Love and Other Tall Tales

Date: May 30, 2012

With prose as clean as Hemingway's and a Kafka-esque sense of the absurd, Greg Boyd delivers a memorable book in Modern Love and Other Tall Tales. But these tales are […]

The Boston Review on Lucid Suitcase

Date: May 30, 2012

Red Hen Press, a small nonprofit press in Los Angeles, continues to expand its poetry list with the publication of Diane Wald’s first full-length collection. (Wald’s chapbook publications include My […]

Praise for Interpretive Work

Date: May 30, 2012

"Bradfield [has a] keen eye for intertwining the narrative of the natural world and her human narrative. This is what is breathtaking about Interpretive Work… here are the poems of […]

The Hollins Critic on Glass Town

Date: May 29, 2012

This first full-length collection by Lisa Russ Spear is a mature work, wrought with honed skill and diligent truth telling. Glass Town appropriately begins with “Scenes from Childhood,” a cycle […]

The Virginia Quarterly Review on Glass Town

Date: May 29, 2012

Emerson argued that one’s body belongs to the Not me rather than the Me, and Whitman countered that our identities derive from our bodies. These opposing views define the two […]

Asianweek.com on Glacier Lily

Date: May 29, 2012

A collection of poems that captures the experiences of a Korean American writer living in two worlds — her native Korea, her contemporary America. Neither and both are quite home […]

Reed Wilson Review of Ghost Orchid

Date: May 29, 2012

Maurya Simon’s sixth collection of poems, the visionary Ghost Orchid, begins, like Dante’s Commedia, in the middle of life, where we always are. The first section’s title poem, “Between Heaven […]

The Comstock Review on Kurt Brown’s Future Ship

Date: May 29, 2012

Perhaps there is no present, and existence is built of the alterable past moving into the alterable future, and then through the opaque door of death. Or perhaps there is […]

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