Congratulations to poet and activist Faylita Hicks, author of HoodWitch, on having her poem “Girl 1994: Gawd” featured in Sundress Publication’s Best of the Net poetry awards for 2019! Originally published by The Cincinnati Review, “Girl 1994: Gawd” is also included...
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Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers Interviewed by The Rumpus Poetry Club!
The always wonderful and supportive Rumpus Poetry Book Club sat down with The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons author Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers to talk about the book, “sonnet crowns, formal experimentation, the Mars rover, and getting enough sleep while parenting a...
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...
Don’t Forget: Hannah Dow’s Rosarium as The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed
Did you know that Hannah Dow’s poetry collection Rosarium was a The Wardrobe’s Best Dressed pick from Sundress Publications this spring? The Wardrobe highlights a collection through the lens of a single poem, picking their favorite spotlights for “Best Dressed.” In...
New Poems in The Rumpus from Faylita Hicks
While you wait for Faylita Hicks’ powerful poetry collection, HoodWitch, check out her poems published today in The Rumpus: “All It Took to Get to You,” “For The White Girl in the Poetry Workshop Who Says I Don’t Belong Here,” and “Lil’ Mama Gets High.” The chances...
Poetry Collections by LGBTQIA+ Writers: Faylita Hicks’ HoodWitch
Image from BustleDon’t miss Acre’s mention in a new list from Bustle: 26 New Poetry Collections By LGBTQIA+ Writers to Look Out For in 2019. HoodWitch by Faylita Hicks will be released on October 15 from Acre and is available to buy now on our website. Bustle writes a...
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...
Hicks: Three Powerful Essays and a Micro
Faylita Hicks, whose debut poetry collection, HoodWitch, is forthcoming from Acre this October, has published three powerful essays of late—one in Slate, one in HuffPost, and one in the Texas Observer. And Cincinnati Review selected her work for its weekly Micro...
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”!
Interview with Hannah Dow
XXXXAn absorbing exchange between two wonderfully insightful poets, Hannah Dow and Danielle Cadena Deulen. Thanks, Oxford Writers’ House! Read A Piece of Oneself into the World.