News:

The New York Times highlights author Percival Everett

Date: March 19, 2024

In a narrow, windowless room at the University of Southern California, a group of graduate students is workshopping a short story…. While they speak, their professor, the novelist Percival Everett, […]

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Reviews:

The Hudred Fathom Curve in The Midwest Book Review

Date: October 3, 2011

In August 2011 The Midwest Book Review's Wisconsin Bookwatch wrote about John Barr's book of poems. "The Hundred Fathom Curve is John Barr's exploration of Americana from the perspectives of […]

Sasha West’s review of Cold Angel of Mercy

Date: October 3, 2011

Poet Sasha West examines the language of Amy Randolph in Randolph's book Cold Angel of Mercy. "Randolph's crisp, searing voice is evident in her facility with image." —Sasha West

The Hudson Review looks at Ship of Fool

Date: October 3, 2011

In the sixty-fourth volume of The Hudson Review, Peter Makuck praises William Trowbridge's book, Ship of Fool. "William Trowbridge's Ship of Fool had me laughing out loud . . . […]

Fred Chapel reviews The Owning Stone

Date: September 30, 2011

“My favorite poems here include the title poem about a talisman stone that emblemizes the omnipresence of past time, ‘Something Old,’ ‘Someone’s Father,’ the bitterly ironic ‘Fish to Fry,’ ‘Trucks […]

Stephen Dobyns

Date: August 2, 2011

“At first glance Jim Tilley’s In Confidence seems to consist of calm, graceful poems of upper middle class domesticity, but turkey vultures wait in the yard and many stories have […]

From Publishers Weekly

Date: August 1, 2011

In yet another variation of a vampire love story, Eidus (The War of the Rosens) introduces Lilith Zeremba, a college freshman who has declared herself, over and over, to be […]

Booklist loves The Last Jewish Virgin

Date: July 31, 2011

Fiction is subject to viruses, and the vampire bug strikes the unlikeliest writers. Witty and incisive Eidus (The War of the Rosens, 2007) has always drawn our attention to the […]

Claudia Emerson reviews In Confidence

Date: July 31, 2011

In Jim Tilley's In Confidence, we see the internal and external workings of the world through a mature poets multifaceted lens. Crafting his poems with formal care, Tilley always aims […]

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