A few snapshots from summer blurbs and reviews... Blurb by Moriel Rothman-Zecher, author of Before all the World and Sadness is a White Bird Nothing Vast – by Moshe Marvit Acre Books, forthcoming fall 2024 "Nothing Vast is a rich, intelligent and lucid...
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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....
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. […]
HoodWitch Recommended By Bitch Media
Bitch Media listed Faylita Hicks’ upcoming poetry collection HoodWitch today in a list of “7 Books by Queer Black Writers to Read in Honor of James Baldwin’s Birthday.” They write that: HoodWitch examines what power looks like when reclaimed by Black women and...
Chard deNiord reviews AFTER THE AFTERLIFE
Thanks to On the Seawall host Ron Slate, and to Chard deNiord, for this lovely review of After the Afterlife: “In poem after poem, the personal crosses over to the universal; particulars grow immense, irony disarms sobriety, erudition underpins inspiration, and pathos...
Dow in San Francisco Chronicle
XXXXThanks to David Roderick and the San Francisco Chronicle for this thoughtful look at Hannah Dow’s “Postcard from the Salton Sea”!
The Kenyon Review on AFTER THE AFTERLIFE
We’re beyond pleased with Derek Mong’s thoughtful and thoroughgoing review of T. R. Hummer’s AFTER THE AFTERLIFE in the Kenyon Review.