PRESS
Catch up with interviews and reviews here.
2025
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Sarah Wetzel's Elegies of Herons reviewed by Megan Robson in the Poetry Book Society Winter bulletin.
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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/
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Sullivan Summer's Performance Anxiety reviewed in New Pages, December 27th
https://www.newpages.com/blog/books/book-reviews/performance-anxiety-by-sullivan-summer/
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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/
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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/
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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
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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/
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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
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2021
Maggie Olszewski interviewed in Fish Barrel Review
https://fishbarrelreview.wordpress.com/2021/12/30/maggie-olszewski/
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Morgan Christie Interviewed on International Women’s Day in Diversity Business Magazine
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Sarah Hymas was featured on Climate Cultures website (no longer available)
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Rabha Ashry interviewed for Postscript magazine, Issue 38, June
https://postscriptmagazine.org/content/rabhaashry-alien
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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/
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