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Saida Agostini Poem Appears in Pride Poems 2022 For pride month 2022 Saida Agostini reads her (VERY NSFW) poem "Adventures of the Third Limb" "Adventures of the Third Limb," Saida Agostini's boisterous and celebratory love poem was chosen as part of DC Pride's poem a day celebration. The project hosts 30 short videos of queer DC-area poets reading a love poem and archives them all on their website: pridepoems.com. You can watch Saida read her poem HERE. The full text is below (NSFW WARNING) and you can help out DC pride by volunteering or donating at capitalpride.org. You can … [Read more...]

Elizabeth Hazen Essay Lands in Coachella Review Elizabeth Hazen's new essay "Click Here to Relive This Memory" explores the warmth and the chill of nostalgia " The future brims with uncertainty and violence and harsh colors; it is no surprise that we prefer looking back," writes Elizabeth Hazen in her new essay that contends with a societal and personal obsession with nostalgia. In the course of her essay, she charts her life as a young child devouring handfuls of cereal in front of Saturday morning cartoons, to a young mother mired in a failing marriage, to the struggles and … [Read more...]

ASP Celebrates AAPI Month With Selections from the Work of Linda Watanabe McFerrin ASP celebrates Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with works by Japanese-American poet and writer, Linda Watanabe McFerrin. The two poems and one essay below are featured in her Legacy Collection, Navigating the Divide. LEGACY I. In the first act, remember her madness- her wide gash of sorrow, her obi of blood? The tragic Kabuki heroine, she committed seppuku, hid the cross-wise cut under mulberry robes. We walked like obakes, like unsettled ghosts. She cut my long hair. It frightened … [Read more...]

THE OTHER ONES named "great summer read" by Pittsburgh Magazine Book editor, Kristofer Collins, names Dave Housley's latest novel as one of ten great summer reads of 2022 Pittsburgh Magazine includes Dave Housley's new novel, The Other Ones, among it's list of must have summer reads for 2022. Whether on the beach, exploring the Alleghanies, or just relaxing in the sun, The Other Ones is a page turner suitable for anyone averting themselves from clammy office life. Of The Other Ones, Kristofer writes: The author Dave Housley didn't have to look far for the subject of … [Read more...]

Saida Agostini's "let the dead in" Featured in Ms. Magazine Saida Agostini's debut collection of poems receives a glowing recommendation from Ms. Magazine in three words: "Mythology, ancestry, triumph." Popular American feminist megazine, Ms. Magazine, shouts out Saida Agostini's much raved about new collection of poems in a listicle posted on April 20th entitled "Poetry for the Rest of Us 2022." With three words, "Mythology, Ancestry, Triumph" Ms. places Agostini's let the dead in among recent poetry standouts like Salmas Sharif's Customs and Aurielle Marie's Gumbo Ya … [Read more...]