Reviews for HERE IS A GAME WE COULD PLAY by Jenny Bitner, OUR CANCERS by Dan O’Brien, and HEADLESS JOHN THE BAPTIST HITCHHIKING by C.T. Salazar
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Pivotal Pages / All the Tiny Beauties
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...
Author Jenna Le on Form, Aesthetics, and Manatees
Poetry Editor Lisa Ampleman Interviews Jenna Le, Author of MANATEE LAGOON
An Interview with Jenn Scott
Author Jenn Scott on POV, Intention, and Identity in ALL THE TINY BEAUTIES
Library Journal review of C.T. Salazar’s Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking
“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. […]
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