One night in 2012, Oliver Nguyen carefully removed all of the family pictures from their frames in his […] On Photos That Lie & Poems of Hard Truths: Diana ...March 12, 2024 in Uncategorized by admin
This poetry collection is full of holes. That is to say—this poetry collection is full of “portals.” As […] Portals to The Places That Hold: The Self-Forgetting Poetry of ...March 12, 2024 in Uncategorized by admin
Translated from the Ukrainian by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps, the poems in Serhiy Zhadan’s How Fire Descends: […] “Of all the literature, of all the language:” A Review ...March 12, 2024 in Uncategorized by admin
The writings collected in renowned short story writer and novelist, George Singleton’s debut book of essays are well […] Nothing to Say (But a Lot to Show): George Singleton’s ...February 14, 2024 in Uncategorized by admin
What is it to read, to write? What is it to attempt to read Jay Wright? I grope […] The Red-Tinted Grammar of the Day: The Polyphonic Poetics of ...February 14, 2024 in Uncategorized by admin
Especially since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ostap Slyvynsky’s poems have become translated and more accessible for […] “Stay with me, sleepless night as black as soot:” War, ...February 14, 2024 in Uncategorized by admin
In Elijah Burrell’s new collection, Skies of Blur, Burrell provides mashups of the inner and outer, of the […] Grief and Transformation in Elijah Burrell’s Skies of Blur: A ...January 15, 2024 in Uncategorized by admin
“I want to create art that’s unpredictable,” says the speaker in “steamboat,” one of eleven interstitial essays from […] The Art of Unpredictability: It’s fun to be a person ...January 15, 2024 in Uncategorized by admin
In the latest publication of Mykola Horbal’s Details of an Hourglass: Poems from the Gulag, translated by Myrosia […] Imploring a Spark of Mercy: A Review of Mykola Horbal’s ...December 14, 2023 in Uncategorized by admin
Jen Beagin, a master of small-town strangeness, has not strayed from her literary strengths with her third novel, […] Watch or Be Watched: Big Swiss by Jen Beagin, Reviewed by ...November 16, 2023 in Uncategorized by admin
Kelly Sather’s debut story collection, Small in Real Life, is reflective sunglasses, the smack of flip flops, stardom […] Performing California: Small in Real Life by Kelly Sather, A ...November 16, 2023 in Uncategorized by admin
There are three themes of this prize-winning debut book by Kewku Abimbola: Bridge-making, Naming, and Symbol as Language, […] Saltwater Demands a Psalm by Kewku Abimbola, Winner of the ...November 16, 2023 in Uncategorized by admin