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Reuben Jackson Joins WPFW's "The Sound of Surprise" Jazz expert, Reuben Jackson, takes his expertise to the beloved DC jazz standby. Beginning May 1st, Reuben will begin as host of DC radio channel WPFW's "The Sound of Surprise." The show runs from 4 to 6pm and Reuben will be alternating every other Sunday with the program's creator, Larry Appelbaum. WPFW (89.3) has been serving the DC metropolitan area since 1977 as a standout talk and jazz station. Entirely listener supported, WPFW does not play commercials. Reuben Jackson is a poet, raconteur, and former archivist of the … [Read more...]

A Book and Its Cover: Rose Solari Reviews Two New Collections of Poetry for WIRoB Terri Ellen Cross Davis and Dan Beachy-Quick's new collections get the Rose Solari treatment in a new review which ties subject matter to cover design. Rose Solari's latest review column for Washington Independent Review of Books tackles two stellar new collections by established small-press poets, Terry Ellen Cross Davis and Dan Beachy-Quick. As with all her reviews, Rose uses a common theme to link the subject matter of the books she is reviewing. This month, she explores how the cover design is … [Read more...]

New Review of Girls Like Us: The Collection "Bulges with Debilitating Last Lines" "The surprise-suplex-onto-concrete, knock-the-air-out-of-you kind of debilitating. Hazen is even dastardly enough to look the reader in the eye, then hook them with the very first last line: 'We've been called so many things that we are not, we startle at the sound of our own names.'" In Lannie Stabile's new review of Elizabeth Hazen's second collection Girls Like Us, she raves about the effect of Hazen's "last lines." Girls Like Us, she says, is "bulging with debilitating last lines." Like this one in … [Read more...]

New Poem by Elizabeth Hazen "Panic Attack" Lands in Failbetter A new poem by Maryland standout Elizabeth Hazen has been published in the 62nd volume of Failbetter literary journal. The poem, titled "Panic Attack," is dark and violent featuring images of fire, anxiety, and this evocative extended metaphor which crawls under the author's skin, "a banshee with curled fingernails; a gorgon, green and merciless; a girl with a loaded gun trapped inside a woman with her tongue cut out." Elizabeth Hazen's latest collection of poems, Girls Like Us, was released in March 2020 just … [Read more...]

Attending AWP? Check out Katherine E. Young's Panel on Women in Translation "This panel of poet-translators working in Catalan, French, and Russian focuses on the systems of exclusion that permeate the literary culture in this country and the role of translators in amplifying these voices." Join professional translators Katherine E. Young, Aviya Kushner, Nancy Naomi Carlson, Sharon Dolin, and Andrea Jurjević as they discuss "systems of exclusion which permeate literary culture." This panel at AWP is an important one for Katherine E. Young who has historically translated … [Read more...]