What People Are Saying

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…the speaker (Melissa Studdard in Dear Selection Committee) revels in her largesse…All of this immensity, this grand unburying, is squeezed into the prosaic corseting structure of a job application, intensifying the split between tame and wild…Indeed, these poems are so desirous and animated that they spilled over the edges of the page and into my thirsty soul.

This is a new-century work, a voicing of Barbara Cully's tidal sense of the temporal, her premonitory stillness, written by desert and sea-light, inscribing the endurance of loss, the necessity of vigilance. Her images are beautiful and precise, her sensibility profound. 

I've been to so many Curious Theatre shows over the years. They can be pretty raw, which I like, and always surprising. I'd leave feeling more awake and more alive, which is exactly what you want when you go see a show. (Curious Plays)

Garza’s artful debut, a memoir, charts the aftermath of a tragedy that devastated her family....She documents the events and the family’s reactions, by mood rather than chronologically, sharing her own perspective alongside those of her parents and extended family. Garza is off to a strong start. 

Pluck some characters out of Thomas Pynchon, Robert Penn Warren, Sonny Boy Williamson II, the Bible, and Wes Anderson movies. Place them in torrential rains and a flood. Hand them over to a genius storyteller. Mix well. Here's what you get in David Wesley Williams's riotous novel Everybody Knows. I love this wild ride.

 Through captivating accounts of Tourette syndrome, Welch's language mirrors repeated movements and sounds, embodying Auden's vision of poetry ...David Gregory Welch's poems celebrate and transform the body's limits in this intoxicating, unforgettable collection.

Karen Rigby returns with a stunning collection of incisive, sensual, and alluring lyrical delights.   In its imaginative reconfigurations of fine art and fashion, Rigby’s second book redefines notions of femme fatality and fame, interrogates relationships between reader and writer in endlessly engrossing ways, and explores fabulosity in all its many guises.