Kristine Langley Mahler’s A Calendar is a Snakeskin is a practice in meaning-making, one that invites the reader […] Haunt/Hearth: Kristine Langley Mahler’s A Calendar is a SnakeskinDecember 14, 2023 in Uncategorized by Kristina Marie Darling
Dear Reader of This Review, Don’t you love when the final poem in a collection shuttles you swiftly […] “What lies below/is what persists”: Anne Myles’s Late EpistleDecember 14, 2023 in Uncategorized by Kristina Marie Darling
Inscribing poems with Greek myth, especially in the West, is a cultural habit. The Greek tragedies somehow speak […] Veronica Golos on Jennifer Franklin’s If Some God Shakes Your ...December 14, 2023 in Uncategorized by Kristina Marie Darling
Carolyn Oliver is the author of The Alcestis Machine (Acre Books, forthcoming 2024), Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the […] Carolyn Oliver — “Mock Moon”December 14, 2023 in Poetry / Uncategorized tagged Carolyn Oliver by Yamini Pathak
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
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. […] On Disease of Kings by Anders Carlson-Wee: A Review by ...October 13, 2023 in Uncategorized by admin
George Sarantaris’s poems pack exceptional force, beauty, ambiguity, and longing into tiny stones. The poems in Abyss and […] On George Sarantaris’s Abyss and Song: Selected Poems, translated by ...October 13, 2023 in Uncategorized by admin
Yours, Creature is a collection of hauntingly dark poetry written in the form of letters—known as epistolary poems—in […] Parental Abandonment, Unhealthy Attachment & Longing for Love through the ...October 13, 2023 in Uncategorized by admin
Down Here We Come Up, Sara Johnson Allen’s debut novel, tells a story both focused on place and […] Intersections are Everything: On Sara Johnson Allen’s Down Here We ...September 15, 2023 in Uncategorized by admin
Honest, real, and lyrical, Arthur Kayzakian’s The Book of Redacted Paintings arrives at a moment in current events […] On Arthur Kayzakian’s The Book of Redacted Paintings: A Review ...September 15, 2023 in Uncategorized by admin