James Reiss reviews Simone Muench's Orange Crush
...Over at Gently Read Literature: Without constructing sequential plots, she deals with women’s lack of liberation and some of its...

SPD Recommends The Haunted House!
From SPD Recommends- July 1, 2010 New Poetry from Switchback Books The Haunted House by Marisa Crawford $14 paper 82 pp. Switchback Books...
Switchback's Jen Cullerton Johnson and Illustrator Sonia Lynn Sadler discuss Seeds of Change
As a part of the publisher Lee and Low's BookTalk, author Jen Cullerton Johnson (of Switchback) and illustrator Sonia Lynn Sadler discuss...


Tonight! Revelry and 'Raising at Irish Eyes
Switchback Fundraiser–The Women of Switchback Sling Drinks for Poetry Thursday, June 24 7:30-11:30 pm Irish Eyes Pub 2519 N Lincoln...
Switchback's Elizabeth Hildreth Interviews Elisa Gabbert
In April of 2010, Elisa Gabbert was interviewed by Switchback's Elizabeth Hildreth over e-mail about her debut poetry collection The...
'Scuse Me While I Say "Hell Yeah"
Min Jung Oh on Brandi Homan's Bobcat Country: In Bobcat Country, Brandi Homan not only asserts herself as an extraordinary voice in the...
Christian Peet @ Word Riot
Interacting with other small presses as a fellow publisher, however, is a whole other thing. I can’t even think of every press that...
Anne Carson on Translation at A Public Space
Silence is as important as words in the practice and study of translation. This may sound like a cliché. (I think it is a cliché. Perhaps...
Claudia Kishi, Style Icon
Over at Ironing Board Collective, Marisa Crawford gushes over the fashionista of The Baby-sitters Club series: Ahhh, what!!! Bell-bottoms...


New American Poet editor Hanna Andrews!
As if we needed further proof that Hanna was a*MAY*zing, she was recently appointed Editor of American Poet, the journal of the Academy...