The upcoming book recounts the author’s experiences as drummer/percussionist with Dead Can Dance through the 1980s, his contribution to This Mortal Coil and being a guest on several 4AD recordings. It’s an in-depth memoir written in a very exciting way, recalling all those tiny details we all wanted to know more about, including his two solo albums and more! Highly recommended.

Pamela Uschuk is a poet, political activist, and wilderness advocate. She is also a cancer survivor, and in this week’s segment of KNAU’s series PoetrySnaps!, she shares a poem that moves through the experience and endurance of chemotherapy. Uschuk says her poem Green Flame was inspired by one particular sight in nature.

Poet Anna V.Q. Ross knows what to leave unsaid, knows the just enough to send the reader’s blood and mind alight. 

Allison Joseph, a poet of Caribbean descent, visited Bradley on Nov. 3 in the Wyckoff Room of the Cullom-Davis Library to present a reading of her own poems and her husbands to students. 

In her lifetime, she has written over 15 poetry pieces and books, the latest of which is titled ‘Confessions of a Barefaced Woman,’ published in 2019…

When introducing her book “Lexicon”, Joseph explained to the audience that she was a nerd – she even read the dictionary for fun. Her affinity for language was apparent in her book, which also discussed grieving. Joseph later explained that it was also an ode to being a writer and the constant longing to stop writing. 

All the way from England, my very special guest drummer/ percussionist Peter Ulrich of Dead Can Dance and The Peter Ulrich Collaboration. Peter has written a new book called “Drumming With Dead Can Dance & Parallel Adventures” coming out officially through California’s Red Hen Press Nov 15. This book a fabulous fly-on-the-wall read with a lovely forward by DCD’s Liza Gerrard. Peter and I also feature the music of Dead Can Dance, This Mortal Coil and The Peter Ulrich Collaboration and Peter’s solo work. Coral Rockks Playlist – Dead Can Dance – Saltarello/ The Carnival is Over/ Frontier/Sanvean/As The Bell Rings The Maypole Spins/ This Mortal Coil – Song to the Siren. Dead Can Dance – Song to the Siren. The Peter Ulrich Collaboration – Pureland. Peter Ulrich – Taqaharu’s Leaving. Coral Rockks. Lotsa Music. Little Chats and Lotsa %$#@ Coffee or in this case A Cuppa Tea!!

William Archila’s The Gravedigger’s Archaeology won the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize and his first collection The Art of Exile won an International Latino Book Award. He was featured in Spotlight on Hispanic Writers, Library of Congress. His poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, Agni, Tin House, Prairie Schooner, American Poetry Review, Conjunctions, and The Missouri Review. He lives in Los Angeles, on Tongva land. His poem “Poem Series” from his new book The Gravedigger’s Archaeology is featured in the Los Angeles Review.

“The Colonel” is a poem of witness because it focuses on the human rights violations in El Salvador, but most importantly because it has revealed the ways in which a tragic event such as a civil war can leave a mark upon the imagination. It also brought me consolation at a time when I felt hurt in the aftermath of the civil war, when I finally realized that here was an American voice coming from the same country that exploited my own and she was recognizing my countrymen’s plight. Today it reminds me of the complexities of my safety and comfort in living in this country. It also caught my attention because it’s a poem without being a poem and that’s a trick hard to pull off. It gave me the courage to tell my own story in English.

Each year, among the new fiction collections fighting for attention are a handful published neither through mainstream houses nor the usual small press alternatives but via a third avenue: book prize contests.

THROUGHOUT HER LENGTHY writing career, Cai Emmons has returned again and again to the topic of catastrophe. Three of her most recent novels, including her 2022 groundbreaker Unleashed, have wrestled with the psychological, emotional, and physical impacts of the climate crisis. Her other novels, like Livid (also published in 2022), revolve around the persistence of danger in the wake of violence. It’s clear that trouble has long been on Cai’s mind, but catastrophe remained a largely fictional concept until 2021, when she was diagnosed with bulbar-onset ALS. The weakening of her vocal cords and facial muscles signaled the arrival of a disease that will eventually cause paralysis throughout Cai’s body. The catastrophe is now all too real. 

Married heterosexual motherhood in America, especially in the past two years, is a game no one wins. During the height of the pandemic, my mom-friend group chats roiled: I’m going to scream, typed women trying to do it all. I am seriously going to kill my husband and/or devour my young (hope they don’t subpoena this text thread) became a running joke.

This debut collection follows a slew of children and young adults as they move through the quotidian patterns of life—celebrating birthdays, enjoying beach parties, attending church events—while also being thrust into grim, chaotic, and violent situations. Hsu’s stories expose the irresistible urge to search for hope within a depraved world.