We’re starting a new series, Pivotal Pages, whereby we isolate snippets from our titles, short spans in which someone or something alters dramatically. Today we inaugurate the series with a spectacular scene from Jenn Scott’s All the Tiny Beauties, a novel that...
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A few snapshots from October reviews … Here Is a Game We Could Play
Author Jenna Le on Form, Aesthetics, and Manatees
Poetry Editor Lisa Ampleman Interviews Jenna Le, Author of MANATEE LAGOON
Interview with Jenn Scott
Author Jenn Scott on POV, Intention, and Identity in ALL THE TINY BEAUTIES (September 2022)
JS: The book originated with the character of Webster Eugene Jackson, who was for me the sun all the other characters orbited. When I first moved to California in 2001, my (now) husband lived with…
Announcing Our November 2022 Release! Hugh Sheehy’s Design Flaw
Hugh Sheehy’s riveting new collection draws heavily from the genres of horror, mystery, science fiction, and myth. These are tales of seekers, often damaged, who find themselves…
Library Journal review of C.T. Salazar’s Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking: Poems
“An immense tenderness underlies Salazar’s standout first collection. The poems probe the ever-presence of history, family, place, religion, and grief insisting on multidimensionality and the complicated ways the aforementioned entwine with us, for better and worse....
Announcing Our October 2022 Release! Jenna Le’s Manatee Lagoon
In Manatee Lagoon, her third full-length collection, physician and poet Jenna Le blends traditional form and the current moment. Sonnets, ghazals, pantoums, villanelles, and a “failed georgic” weave in contemporary…
Announcing Our September 2022 Release! Jenn Scott’s All the Tiny Beauties
Set in Oakland, California, All the Tiny Beauties begins with a kitchen fire that sends the reclusive Webster Jackson to the home of his new neighbor, Colleen, who discovers him on her doorstep wearing a lacy peignoir, his house in flames.
Holiday Bundles!
ACRE Holiday Bundles Acre Books distributed by the University of Chicago Press. (uchicago.edu) Click the above link, pick 2 or more titles from a given bundle, and receive 35% off (including ebooks) when you input the discount code at checkout! Offer expires January...
Review of Dan O’Brien’s OUR CANCERS by Megan Kuklis
“Dan O’Brien’s collection has brought his experience of his wife’s and his own cancer into the realm of shared memory. Although deeply personal, his poetic memories transcend into the universal story of grief and caregiving. […]