My public library is not a very good one. Once I was at the desk to take out […]
Hannah Page
The Visit (BlazeVOX Books, 2024) is a coming of age novel as well as a suspenseful mystery, that […]
The Experimental Novel Comes of Age: Karin Falcone on The ...
This is indeed an accomplished novel by a poet. The complex and poetic plot structure is as intricate […]
Observations and Astonishments: Rebecca Kaiser Gibson on Paradise Close by ...
In his scholarly addendum, “A Critical Postscript: Cyborgs, Whalemen, and Other Voyagers in Moby-Dick,” Steve Mentz notes that […]
Charles Rammelkamp on Steve Mentz’s Sailing Without Ahab
Leah Umansky’s Of Tyrant is a searing exploration of the fracturing of contemporary Americanlife. Umansky navigates personal and […]
Lizzy Itkin on Leah Umansky’s Of Tyrant
The human tendency to categorize, organize, and compartmentalize life events and occurrences is a strong instinct. This doesn’t […]
Shannon Vare Christine on Amanda Shaw’s It Will Have Been ...
“Death is the great egret at the swamp, picking newly hatched green herons / from their cypress nest” […]
Katie Manning’s 28,065 Nights: A Retrospective by Jonathan Fletcher
Leslie Ullman’s artistic career is surprising. Often praised for her attention to craft and for poems of mental […]
Kathleen Bednarek on Leslie Ullman’s Unruly Tree
Sarah Carson is the author of several poetry collections, including How to Baptize a Child in Flint, […]
Sarah Carson — from I Kissed Dating Goodbye
Alyson Favilla is an MFA student and a Grisham Fellow in poetry at the University of […]
Al Favilla — “Eco-Dysphoria with Emerald Ash Borer” & “Eco-Dysphoria ...
August, 1975 The month before you knew for good how first grade tasted. The monthyour father and mother […]
Sally Rosen Kindred — “August, 1975”
Wheeler Light (he/him) received his MFA from the University of Virginia. His work has appeared or […]