Looking out from the visible, an […]
Kristina Marie Darling
“American poets now usually do not seek to weave a comprehensive vision,” proclaims Mark Edmundson in his essay […]
The Visionary Alchemy of R. Nemo Hill
Poetic and religious impulses have been sibling undertakings since prehistory, and most of the major religious texts are […]
The Poet’s Quest for God: 21st Century Poems of Faith, ...
I confess I don’t read nearly enough translation, despite long-standing knowledge of how insular Americans’ reading habits are, […]
“Truth in Lies”: On The Return of Munchausen by Sigizmund ...
Pantone is a New Jersey-based design company responsible for standardizing color reproduction. Their color chip system ensures that […]
The Significance of Color: On Shayla Lawson’s Pantone
Upon opening The Magic of the Mariachi La Magia del Mariachi, you’ll first notice a pastel portrait of […]
The Magic of the Mariachi by Steven and Reefka Schneider
House of Water, the debut collection by poet Matthew Nienow, is an important and moving accomplishment, a song […]
“Writing My Own Name in the Encyclopedia of Work:” ...
In many ways, Matthew Olzmann’s Contradictions in the Design exists as an outlier amongst current American poetry books. […]
Contradictions in the Design by Matthew Olzmann
And he threw them rags all up in the air and into the palm of that hand, and […]
It’s All in the Wind: A Review of Olio by ...
In her stellar debut collection, Prayer Book of the Anxious, Josephine Yu includes poems that illustrate faith in […]
Prayer Book of the Anxious by Josephine Yu
In the midst of found poems made from Trump speeches, divisions in the literary community over Bob Dylan’s […]
Mr. West by Sarah Blake
It is the brave who conquer life’s many frontiers. The physical and emotional boundaries that enclose us keep […]