Small Press Spotlight: Paul Martinez Pompa

By NBCC

My Kill Adore Him, University of Notre Dame Press, 2009. Paul Martínez Pompa is the author of Pepper Spray, a chapbook published by Momotombo Press in 2006. My Kill Adore

Small Press Spotlight: C.M. Mayo

By Rigoberto Gonzalez

The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, Unbridled Books, 2009 C.M. Mayo is also the author of Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico

SMALL PRESS SPOTLIGHT: STEVE FELLNER 2

By Rigoberto Gonzalez

All Screwed Up, Benu Press, 2009. Steve Fellner’s first book of poems Blind Date with Cavafy was released by Marsh Hawk Press. It won the Thom Gunn Gay Male Poetry

SMALL PRESS SPOTLIGHT: JEFFREY THOMSON

By Rigoberto Gonzalez

Birdwatching in Wartime, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2009. Jeffrey Thomson is the author of three previous collections of poetry. An Associate Professor of creative writing at the University of Maine,

SMALL PRESS SPOTLIGHT: SARAH GAMBITO

By Rigoberto Gonzalez

Delivered, Persea Books, 2009.Sarah Gambito is the author of a previous collection, Matadora. She is co-founder of Kundiman, a non-profit organization that promotes Asian American poetry, and is Assistant Professor

Richard Ford, Nam Le, in Conversation

By Jane Ciabattari

Sooner or later, a guy writing short stories in English is going to have to come up against Richard Ford, whose work from Rock Springs to A Multitude of Sins

SMALL PRESS SPOTLIGHT: STACEY LYNN BROWN

By Rigoberto Gonzalez

Cradle Song, C&R Press, 2009. Stacey Lynn Brown was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, and studied at Emory University, Oxford University, and The University of Oregon, where she received

SMALL PRESS SPOTLIGHT: RANDALL MANN

By Rigoberto Gonzalez

Breakfast with Thom Gunn, University of Chicago Press, 2009. Randall Mann is a writer and editor living in San Francisco. He is also the author of Complaint in the Garden,

SMALL PRESS SPOTLIGHT: CHING-IN CHEN

By Rigoberto Gonzalez

The Heart’s Traffic, Arktoi Books/ Red Hen Press, 2009. Ching-In Chen is the daughter of Chinese immigrants and a Kundiman Fellow. She has been a community organizer in the Asian

Small Press Spotlight: John Olivares Espinoza

By Rigoberto Gonzalez

The Date Fruit Elegies, Bilingual Press, 2009. John Olivares Espinoza’s first book is The Date Fruit Elegies, which inaugurated Bilingual Press’s new poetry series Canto Cosas in 2008. Espinoza has