We are a bit behind. Things planned for April come out in May.

We are doing the best we can, as our team is filled with educators & scholars. It’s been a month.

That being said, we are watching who is on the right side of history with Palestine 🇵🇸. Act accordingly.

'Fugitive / Refuge is an immensely complex collection, one that defies a quick read and instead encourages readers to sit with their own place'

Thrilled to see a new review from 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 on FUGITIVE/REFUGE by Philip Metres فيليب أبورجيلي: thepoetryquestion.com/2024/04/17/rev…

As of this morning 29 writers & translators nominated for PEN Awards have withdrawn - including 9 of 10 fellow Jein/Stein nominees, who asked to no longer be considered for PEN’s most lucrative prize. We sent a letter to leadership today explaining why:
lithub.com/the-pen-awards…

Reviewer Ronnie K. Stephens 🍉 covers Philip Metres فيليب أبورجيلي’ collection, FUGITIVE / REFUGE (@CopperCanyonPrs).

Read it here: thepoetryquestion.com/2024/04/17/rev…

TPQ reviewer Ronnie K. Stephens 🍉 covered Danez’s BLUFF (@GraywolfPress) with high praise.

Read it here, and pre-order BLUFF, dropping this August.

thepoetryquestion.com/2024/04/15/rev…

“Ok’s WARD TOWARD, winner of the Yale Univ Press Series of Younger Poets is a meditative and haunting debut that confronts occupation, institutionalization, and anti Asian violence with unflinching honesty.”

-Ronnie K. Stephens 🍉 in our latest review.

thepoetryquestion.com/2024/04/05/rev…

Reminder that I write four reviews a month for 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, almost exclusively from small presses, and share all reviews to social media accounts. Bookstagram is one hell of a community for raising the proverbial signal for under represented voices and genres.

TPQ EIC statement on Small Press Distribution

TPQ Founder and EIC Emeritus statement on PoFo

For many of us, personally, the boycott did not end. We lifted the boycott to give opportunity for writers with current relationships with PoFo to honor those relationships without financial detriment & as good faith to the institution to do the work it said it’s going to do.

Nah.

I don't know anyone who ever stopped boycotting.

The lifting of the general boycott was strategic grace to let folks conclude outstanding relationships & for PoFo to prove it could do better.

If this is it, then we've all been failed on multiple fronts as a genocide rages on.

A commitment to 'clarity' provided by an institution built on language while refusing to call this a genocide of the Palestinian people shows you haven't gotten the message at all.

“Something About Living should be in every classroom, every library. This is a rallying cry at its most lyrical, most poignant. I can’t say it enough: you need to read this book.”

Thank you to Ronnie K. Stephens 🍉 and 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻!

Today Reviewer Ronnie K. Stephens 🍉 covers Lena Khalaf Tuffaha لينا خلف تفاحة’s collection SOMETHING ABOUT LIVING (@uakronpress)!

Read it here: thepoetryquestion.com/2024/03/26/rev…

Today, Ronnie K. Stephens 🍉 examines SOMS out now! 👇🏾 | @omotarajames.bsky.social’ collection, SONG OF MY SOFTENING (@AliceJamesBooks).

Read it here: thepoetryquestion.com/2024/03/11/rev…

Today, Ronnie K. Stephens 🍉 covers THE MOON THAT TURNS YOU BACK (@eccobooks) by Hala Alyan!

Read it here: thepoetryquestion.com/2024/03/07/rev…

We’re back with a review by Ronnie K. Stephens 🍉 of ALT-NATURE by Saretta Morgan (@Coffee_House_)!

Tap in here: thepoetryquestion.com/2024/03/06/rev…