Author Archives: Angela Yuriko Smith
LITERARY (LATE) LUNCHBREAK: NACHING T. KASSA
Due to a tech error in last Saturday’s show (I forgot to enable audio) no one could hear Naching T. Kassa’s fantastic reading of her flash story “Along for the Ride,” originally written for the June 2021 Iron Writer’s competition. Here it is again… Continue reading
THE HIGH PRICE OF PERFECTION
Did you ever think of what a damaging concept “perfection” is? I wonder how many masterpieces don’t get created because the canvas/paper/melody doesn’t quite measure up to our artistic expectations? Probably, a lot. Continue reading
LIT UP: JEZZY WOLFE WITH MONSTRUM POETICA
Monstrum Poetica by Jezzy Wolfe (Raw Dog Screaming Press) is a delicious exploration of monsters through a variety of forms. The table of contents is organized by creature and alphabetized making it easy to jump around and sample, but be … Continue reading
IG POETRY LIVE FOR SEPTEMBER 2021
My life has been really filling up with all these videos! It was only at the end of last September that I hopped on my first ever video panel for the book release of Black Cranes. My room was too … Continue reading
LITERARY LUNCHBREAK 9-18-2021
Sharing my book mail, current reads, recent reviews and all the lit news I’ve heard in the last week with a video reading from Naching T. Kassa. You can also view it on my Facebook profile and join the conversation … Continue reading
BOOK MAIL: ALL THAT AND A COVER REVEAL
This week’s mail was full of heavy hitting nonfiction from the library, a rare book I finally managed to get my hands on and multiple copies of the same book sent out to different addresses. If you read last week … Continue reading
VOTE FOR SEPTEMBER’S IRON WRITER
It wasn’t a very active Iron Writer competition this month. We can blame it on my trying to step in and do more of the website work, and not being great at it. Considering the wildfires on the west coast, … Continue reading
YOUR BEST MOMENT IS HAPPENING…
It’s been a busy day with an unexpected editing project that lasted all day but it was awesome. I wish I could say what I was doing, but I signed a non-disclosure. Instead, I’ll share the experiment I’ve been doing … Continue reading
“SPEAK, OKINAWA” NEEDS TO BE HEARD
I don’t know what I was expecting when I cracked open Speak, Okinawa by Elizabeth Miki Brina this morning, but it wasn’t this. I just spent the entire day unable to put this book down, weeping and raging. I only … Continue reading
