An Interview with Ana Hebra Flaster, Author of Property of the Revolution: From a Cuban Barrio to a New Hampshire Mill Town / Every American immigrant story is both unique and similar to the tens of millions of emigrations that have... Read More
Please don’t try this at home—penning fifty gothic memories in individual poems as a memoir—unless you’re comfortable being known as Father Goose, live in a tree house, write for the likes of The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and... Read More
When she’s raising a young child, a mother’s day often finds her of two minds: one, not so different from other women; the other, sharing the eyes, ears, and minute-by-minute miracles that come with her flesh and blood experiencing... Read More
In early thirteenth-century Japan, calligrapher Fujiwara no Teika chose one hundred poems of solitude, nature, aging, loneliness, beauty, and desire from one hundred poets of the previous five centuries—Hyakunin Isshu—a collection... Read More
Poetry must come from somewhere that is more than the sum of family, race, education, history, culture, gender, pain, and passion. Every poet, of course, draws on as much, but why is it that so many Black women poets’ where-from place... Read More
No American education should be considered complete without a visceral understanding of plantation life for teenage Black girls in the slavery centuries before the Civil War, when molestation and sexual trauma were so routine that... Read More
Foreword Reviews Announces Winners of the 2024 INDIES Book of the Year Awards / TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan: June 05, 2025—Foreword Reviews announces the winners of its INDIES Book of the Year Awards today. These awards celebrate the... Read More
Executive Editor Matt Sutherland Interviews Brenda Coffee, Author of Maya Blue: A Memoir of Survival / A memoir that reads like a thriller, Brenda Coffee’s Maya Blue reminds us of the power of our voice and speaking our truth. It is... Read More