Shira Dentz's "Flounders" from Essay Press
"In this work, I engage with notions of form and beauty that I, as an artist and a social being, have inherited and tacitly acknowledge or actively work against." Read... Read More
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“door of thin skins” reviewed in Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction
This is not one of those books you read in order to find out what happened; knowing the end doesn’t spoil one single thing that comes before, because suspense about... Read More
Alabama Literary Review reviews “Places I Was Dreaming”
Since the publication of Mose in 1994, Loren Graham has been one of my favorite poets.  His poems have a way of drawing one in completely-I read Mose twice in one sitting-because Graham’s mastery... Read More
“Orphans” in Irish American Mom
"As you my readers know, I love poetry and all the nuance, paradox and emotion conveyed by the magical manipulation of words. Â When I heard from Joan, a native of... Read More
Loren Graham and Brent Newsom: 2016 Oklahoma Book Award Finalists
Congrats to Loren Graham (Places I Was Dreaming) and Brent Newsom (Love’s Labors) on being named 2016 Oklahoma Book Award Finalists in poetry!
Finalists will be announced at the 27th Annual Oklahoma Book Awards on Saturday, April 9th.
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Women’s Review of Books reviews “Esther”
“The twelve verse-chapters function seamlessly to move readers in literal and emotional time, just as chapters in a prose novel do. Visually appealing, two, three, four, and five-line stanzas give the page... Read More
Grab the Lapels reviews “door of thin skins”
"This is the painful and unrelenting tale of Dr. Abe, psychologist and psychic vampire, and his patient/victim, a poet (poetess, he states sibilantly, beginning the process of her dismantling on... Read More
Susan Jett reviews “The Baby Book” by Robin Silbergleid
"What I didn’t expect was the emotional punch it would carry. Having been through a lot of what she writes about, having witnessed much of her journey-to-motherhood as it happened,... Read More
Italian Americana reviews “The Laundress Catches Her Breath”
This charming, poignant collection, winner of the 2012 Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing from the Working Class Association, paints a haunting portrait of working-class Pittsburgh as experienced by Corso’s protagonist known... Read More