Date: April 9, 2024
Susan Rich sat down with Crab Creek Review to discuss her latest book Blue Atlas, the themes of the book, and her writing in general. Blue Atlas is a lyrical abortion […]
Date: April 8, 2024
There is a huge market for books outside the United States, so how can U.S. publishers break into the international market, and how do publishers know which markets are a […]
Date: April 8, 2024
“Every refugee’s story opens in horror, passes through betrayal, and ends in a question.” This sentence, spoken by a protagonist in my new novel, The Good Deed, came to me […]
Date: April 8, 2024
A MIGHTY BLAZE vision: “a book may seem like a small candle in a dark time, but when you put many books together, they make a mighty blaze to light […]
Date: April 8, 2024
Looking for a direct line to your character’s innermost thoughts? In our world of digital noise, it can be overwhelming all the time, never mind when you need a quiet […]
Date: April 3, 2024
The following is from Helen Benedict’s The Good Deed. Benedict is a British-American writer whose most recent work is about war and refugees. Her war novels received citations as best book […]
Date: April 2, 2024
Helen Benedict’s new novel, The Good Deed, follows four refugee women whose lives suddenly collide with an American tourist’s on the Greek island of Samos after she rescues a drowning […]
Date: March 28, 2024
This 38-minute interview features some of Edward’s poems from her upcoming collection, and dives into the meaning behind them. Listen to the insightful segment below.
Date: March 26, 2024
I am a novelist and journalist who has been writing about war and refugees for nearly two decades. In 2018, I went to the Greek island of Samos, which held […]
Date: March 20, 2024
Poets Melissa Studdard and Kelli Russell Agodon share the poems “Green Flame” from Refugee (Red Hen Press, May 2022) and “Self Help Manual” from Crazy Love (Wings Press, 2009) by […]
Date: May 16, 2023
Manifest Image The man keeps telling me I am beautiful.I still look young. He says it like I’ve asked for it,but I don’t care. For him or beauty. I am […]
Date: May 15, 2023
This collection immediately thrusts us into scenes of relative comfort and privilege that are all too often interrupted by the violent horrors plaguing this current time. Mind you, the terms […]
Date: May 11, 2023
Over the past year, Latina/o/x poets spanning vast aesthetics, experiences, and geographies have dazzled me with collections that reveal the complexity and beauty of our communities in all their irreducible […]
Date: May 8, 2023
How can we take refuge amid the pains of this world? In this collection, Pamela Uschuk, winner of an American Book Award in 2010, faces the realities of recent social […]
Date: May 1, 2023
The Skin of Meaning by Keith Flynn is an interesting mixture of contemporary reactions to issues that affect us in the twenty-first century. Keith presents one hundred and eighty-one pages of poetry divided […]
Date: May 1, 2023
Aqueous is a debut novel set in a world where life on land is dangerous and harsh. To save humanity, an underwater paradise is built in the ocean.
Date: April 25, 2023
David Mas Masumoto has a reputation as a remarkable writer. His previous work includes Epitaph for a Peach: Four Seasons on My Family Farm (1996), Harvest Son: Planting Roots in American Soil (1998), and Four […]
Date: April 25, 2023
I heard Brenda Cárdenas read from her new collection, Trace, at The Hungry Brain in Chicago: an incantation, a call to action. By the time I got to the book […]
Date: April 25, 2023
Between grief and relief, Francesca Bell’s poems don’t pause, they flow – like a warm bath, and someone quietly bringing a candle; then a cold shower, and the body awakened […]
Date: April 24, 2023
A long-overdue tale recounted by way of an erstwhile member’s memoir.
