Susan Rich, Author Of BLUE ATLAS Featured On The Slowdown
Date: July 8, 2026
[Susan Rich]’s poem looks up, listens, and leans into the many things we can become open to by finding closeness with these familiar and strange animals.
Date: July 8, 2026
[Susan Rich]’s poem looks up, listens, and leans into the many things we can become open to by finding closeness with these familiar and strange animals.
Date: July 2, 2026
Date: July 1, 2026
Finding true healing after grief requires intentional steps and the courage to integrate new practices into our daily lives. Award-winning author, entrepreneur, and executive coach Laing Rikkers shares how the […]
Date: June 29, 2026
She discusses “the realities behind America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
Date: June 29, 2026
“A conversation on mothering and the action of it, and how many of us are mothering outside our traditional knowledge of what it means to mother.”
Date: June 23, 2026
In the dark bunker where we are both trapped, my dad struggles against the chair he is roped to. He wriggles one arm free from beneath the ropes, reaching for […]
Date: June 15, 2026
Date: June 15, 2026
Date: June 9, 2026
“I really enjoyed the prose style of Kill Dick. I loved how the sentences are always on the move, manic & fast, constantly on to the next.”
Date: June 3, 2026
“I’ve been a drug addict since before I hit puberty. I guess this is what Susie Vogelman taught me about my addiction and my brother’s addiction. Just how simple the […]
Date: August 1, 2013
Lee Gulyas from Contrary Magazine applauds Kelly Davio's use of "the lens and language of religion to question existence, family, and herself" in the poems of Burn This House.- "Don't […]
Date: July 25, 2013
Noah Cho from Hyphen Magazine applauds the stories of Andrew Lam's Birds of Paradise Lost.- "Each of the thirteen stories has a distinct tone and flavor….for Lam, that risk of […]
Date: July 25, 2013
Publishers Weekly comments on the remarkable story found in Mary Evelyn Greene's When Rain Hurts.– "With vivid language and strong imagery, [Greene] describes the harsh deprivations characteristic of Russia's orphanages, […]
Date: July 19, 2013
Check out the August issue of Kirkus to read their take on Mary Evelyn Greene's When Rain Hurts.- "A searingly candid chronicle of the heroic struggle of two adoptive parents […]
Date: July 11, 2013
Eric Nguyen applauds Birds of Paradise Lost, calling it short stories of "second chances."- “What is refreshing about Lam’s work is that it defies expectations of ‘immigrant story’…. Lam’s stories […]
Date: July 11, 2013
storySouth applauds Brendan Constantine's poetry in Calamity Joe.- “While the narratives of loss help hold this work together, it’s Constantine’s lyrical touch that keeps the poems engaging…their inventiveness is refreshing […]
Date: July 11, 2013
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram receives a great review from Rain Taxi.- Lillian-Yvonne Bertram's But a Storm is Blowing from Paradise locates the human in a large context, vacillating between the cosmic and […]
Date: July 2, 2013
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram’s But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise receives an excellent review from Late Night Library.- "Bertram is beyond fearless in her refusal to make reading simple…[her] work can […]
Date: June 26, 2013
Publishers Weekly praises the "close attention to the texture and sound of language" in the poems found in Tess Taylor's The Forage House.– "The confessional and historical poems in Taylor’s […]
Date: June 25, 2013
Hoffert of Library Journal applauds Ron Koertge's The Ogre's Wife– “A pleasure for any reader; in this collection, ‘the straw of the day, bushel after bushel of it, slowly/ turns […]