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Linda Watanabe McFerrin reads "Speaking in Tongues" "Linda Watanabe McFerrin’s poetry rises from the true encounter between language and vision, between wonder and exploration fused with the poet’s need to uncover the mysteries of the earth." Ray Gonzalez Linda Watanabe McFerrin's first featured audio as an ASP author is an intriguing poem which showcases her kaleidoscopic usage of sound. "When there are no words, just sounds that move me." This line prefaces "Speaking Tongues" perhaps to tell the reader not to expect their colors to come easily from rich imagery or description, but from the … [Read more...]

The Legacy Series: What it Is, Why it Matters   Europeans have always known that writers who practice one form of writing might naturally write in another form. American publishers seem stymied when poets write novels or playwrights turn to prose. Fortunately, Alan Squire Publishing gets it! Now, what was so hard about that?  Grace Cavalieri Anyone who has founded, worked for, or been published by an independent literary press knows the joys of it: Being able to put great writing into print without going through tiers of vetting by the “marketing” department; editors and authors … [Read more...]

ASP Presents The Newest Edition to the Legacy Series PRE-ORDER HERE Autumn 2019 LINDA WATANABE MCFERRIN ON THE ASP PODCAST … [Read more...]

  Grace Cavalieri Reads "Identification" "The poet Grace Cavalieri is a…truly generous friend of poetry and poets. In her writing and all she does her large-minded generosity shines." Robert Pinsky Last week we featured Grace Cavalieri's brilliant poem "Safety," about her late husband Kenneth Flynn. "Identification," is, in many ways, the upshot of "Safety's" diminutive ending. In "Safety" we find the poet facing life again as though she were twelve years old, just before she had met her lifelong partner. Because of his loss, she has regressed into a child. But, in "Identification," … [Read more...]

  Richard Peabody reads "The Other Man is Always French" Few write with as much brilliance and variety as Richard Peabody. Spanning nearly forty years, The Richard Peabody Reader offers us a buffet of Peabody’s poetry and prose from 1976 to the present that includes nostalgia, tragedy, despair, wit, surrealism, sex, and even science-fiction. This is an immensely entertaining collection of decades of work by a writer whose powers never lag and whose creativity seems to know no limits. —Mary Mackey Mustn't we all agree that Richard Peabody can seem awfully French? Not to say he writes … [Read more...]