PRESS
Catch up with interviews, snippets and reviews here.
2026
We are pleased to be included in this detailed overview of Where to Send Your Poetry Pamphlet over on the Friday Poem blog.
2025
Sarah Wetzel's Elegies of Herons reviewed by Megan Robson in the Poetry Book Society Winter bulletin.
Danny Bellinger's More Beautiful Than The Dead reviewed by Jami Macarty in New Pages, December 24th
https://www.newpages.com/blog/books/book-reviews/more-beautiful-than-the-dead-by-danny-bellinger/
Sullivan Summer's Performance Anxiety reviewed in New Pages, December 27th
https://www.newpages.com/blog/books/book-reviews/performance-anxiety-by-sullivan-summer/
Monica Wang's When Sad Ones Go Outside reviewed in New Pages, December 28th
https://www.newpages.com/blog/books/book-reviews/when-sad-ones-go-outside-by-monica-wang/
Sarah Wetzel's Elegies of Herons reviewed in New Pages, December 30th
https://www.newpages.com/blog/books/book-reviews/elegies-of-herons-by-sarah-wetzel/
Joanne Godley's doc.X is reviewed by J V Sadler, Dec 19th here:
https://jvsadlerauthor.wixsite.com/blog/post/review-of-joanne-godley-s-doc-x-2024
2024
Harryette Mullen and Open Leaves discussed in Daily Bruin, February
https://dailybruin.com/2024/02/23/ucla-professor-harryette-mullen-weaves-hope-into-environmental-poetry-publication
Harryette Mullen's Open Leaves reviewed by Jami Macarty in New Pages, August 6th
https://www.newpages.com/blog/books/book-reviews/open-leaves-by-harryette-mullen/
JW Summerisle’s Kinfolk reviewed in Best New Poetry, BuzzMag February
https://www.buzzmag.co.uk/best-new-poetry-for-january-feature/
Poem Talk #202, Every Flower A Reminder - Harryette Mullen reads 'Chasing Dirt' from Open Leaves and talks poetry with Simone White, Laynie Brown and Al Filreis for the Kelly Writers House podcast series Jacket 2
https://jacket2.org/podcasts/every-flower-reminder-poemtalk-202
2023
J Noel-Tod reviews Harryette Mullen’s Open Leaves in Some Flowers Soon, Sept
https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/pinks-4-green-stuff-all-over
Deshawn McKinney talks about father forgive me on Madison Bookbeat, September
https://www.wortfm.org/poet-deshawn-mckinney-on-vulnerability-as-a-muscle/
Q & A with Harryette Mullen on newsroom UCLA August
https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/harryette-mullen-open-leaves-poems-from-earth
2022
some of Harryette Mullen's haiku featured on Terrain.org
https://www.terrain.org/2022/poetry/harryette-mullen/
Deshawn McKinney speaks on forgiveness
https://blackoxygen.libsyn.com/deshawn-mckinney-on-forgiveness
Deshawn McKinney interviewed in Wisconsin Life, June
Inside Black Sunflowers - interview on duotrope, November
https://duotrope.com/interview/editor/33466/black-sunflowers-poetry-press
Deshawn McKinney in The Isthmus, October
https://isthmus.com/arts/books/magic-of-being-in-the-room-wisconsin-book-festival-2022/
Poetry News feature on small presses including Black Sunflowers, July
2021
Maggie Olszewski interviewed in Fish Barrel Review
https://fishbarrelreview.wordpress.com/2021/12/30/maggie-olszewski/
Morgan Christie Interviewed on International Women’s Day in Diversity Business Magazine
Sarah Hymas was featured on Climate Cultures website (no longer available)
Rabha Ashry interviewed for Postscript magazine, Issue 38, June
https://postscriptmagazine.org/content/rabhaashry-alien
A review of the hispering by Sarah Hymas in the friday poem
https://thefridaypoem.com/three-pamphlets-s-d-curtis-sarah-hymas-and-geraldine-clarkson/
