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Perfect time of the year to pick this one up...

Thanks to the Wall Street Journal for featuring FERLINGHETTI: A Life by Neeli Cherkovski and noting the uniqueness of the man as: “A figure who was both a poet and a businessman.” Read the article or listen here: wsj.com/articles/5-tal…

DIANE WAKOSKI? YES, PLEASE! Our friends at Anhinga Press are hosting a reading of Wakoski’s poetry this Saturday April 16 at 8PM (ET). Amongst the guest readers is Elizabeth A.I. Powell, whose gorgeous introduction graces that new collection. Event info: bit.ly/3JWlojT

In a ⭐ed review, Publishers Weekly calls Wanda Coleman’s forthcoming HEART FIRST INTO THE RUIN “essential.” Coming in June! Read the full review: publishersweekly.com/9781574232530

The Book Beat calls Wanda Coleman's HEART FIRST INTO THIS RUIN “An essential collection of American poetry.” Read the full review here: thebookbeat.com/backroom/2022/… Book Beat📚🎨🌿

America Magazine America Magazine gets right at the heart of our new FERLINGHETTI: A LIFE: “This recently released expanded edition includes a new foreword, epilogue and afterword, each of them alight with moving, intimate stories.” americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2…

Wanda Coleman love has leapt from L.A. and America all the way across the pond to the UK! The The Telegraph recently raved: “. . . Wicked Enchantment is emphatic, explosive . . . a lesson on reimagining the place and usefulness of anger in art and in life.” telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-…

Godine's (and Black Sparrow Press's) Spring-Summer Reader's Catalog is out and includes three wonderful new titles. Request a print copy by emailing [email protected] or visit online.fliphtml5.com/qfqbh/mcmg/#p=1

EVENT ALERT | MAY 20 at 7PM (PT) IN-PERSON: Join Neeli Cherkovski at The Beat Museum for the launch of FERLINGHETTI: A LIFE. Don’t miss the chance to hear a world-class raconteur share stories about the man who published the Beats. Get the event details: bit.ly/3M5puIb

CUTTINGS FROM THE TANGLE scribe Richard Buckner pecks out a perfect weekly newsletter on Substack that gives readers, he promises, “an inner peace that normally only comes after eating mac-n-cheese.” We suggest signing up for a paid subscription at richardbuckner.substack.com

A new expanded edition of the first biography ever published of poet, publisher, bookseller, and activist Lawrence Ferlinghetti (originally released in 1979) by Neeli Cherkovski is out. The Brooklyn Rail published an exclusive peek at the book’s new forward bit.ly/3wuYCvI

In a recent Los Angeles Times piece entitled “How Los Angeles Transformed American Literature,” the critic David L. Ulin writes: “Wanda Coleman remains among the most essential writers Los Angeles has produced.” We couldn’t agree more! Read the article: latimes.com/entertainment-….

Ferlinghetti’s hometown paper, the San Francisco Chronicle, has weighed in on FERLINGHETTI: A LIFE and it’s a rave: “Cherkovski documents Ferlinghetti’s life in thoughtful prose . . . No one mulling this gentle record will fail to be moved.” datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/review-g…

Get a print copy of Godine's Spring-Summer Reader's Catalog, including titles from Black Sparrow Press, by emailing [email protected] to request a copy or peruse online at online.fliphtml5.com/qfqbh/mcmg/#p=1

To celebrate the publication of Wanda Coleman’s Heart First Into This Ruin: The Complete American Sonnets, the great Poets & Writers is featuring audio of Mahogany L. Browne reading from her introduction and more. Illustration by Terrance Hayes pw.org/content/heart_…

Poet Kerrin McCadden (AMERICAN WAKE) recipient of the '22 Herb Lockwood Prize in the Arts! Author Stephen Kiernan (L.) delivered a tribute to McCadden and Todd R. Lockwood (R.), founder of the Herb Lockwood Prize, presented the award bit.ly/3OY18k1 Photo: Andy Duback

Book Beat is wild for the great Diane Wakoski’s DANCING ON THE GRAVE OF A SON OF A BITCH: “Back in the day, an impassioned plea for being treated with honesty, truth, and respect passed for “radical politics,” much as it still does today.” Book Beat📚🎨🌿 bit.ly/3Qb83HM

#PageOne Enjoy the brilliant first line of the late Wanda Coleman’s nineteenth book and twelfth poetry collection, Heart First Into This Ruin: The Complete American Sonnets (Black Sparrow Press): at.pw.org/PageOne2022x4

In the new Literary Hub series The Annotated Nightstand, poet and memoirist Kendra Allen spotlights Wanda Coleman’s Wicked Enchantment. Read the article at lithub.com/the-annotated-…

The The San Francisco Standard released a list of “Ten Books Every San Franciscan Should Read” earlier this year. In addition to titles such as The Maltese Falcon and The Joy Luck Club, the list included Black Sparrow Press’s FERLINGHETTI: A LIFE by Neeli Cherkovski. sfstandard.com/arts-culture/t…