The last time I was in Midwood, Brooklyn, I was there for a wake to which the daughter […]
Kristina Marie Darling
Joy Harjo’s poem “Perhaps the World Ends Here” asserts from its first line that food is at the […]
Taste: A Book of Small Bites, by Jehanne Dubrow
We are bound together by what we hold. We are holding what binds us. We are held together […]
A Review of Be Holding by Ross Gay
Phong Nguyen’s post-colonial and feminist retelling of the Trưng sisters, national heroes of Vietnam, humanizes these women who […]
She-Kings Against Empire: A Review of Phong Nguyen’s Bronze Drum: ...
Tenured in the art of balancing multiple simultaneous perspectives, Maggie Nelson, in her new book of essays, On […]
A Review of Maggie Nelson’s On Freedom: Four Songs of ...
In the electric hum of Fernando A. Flores’s fiction, you might not always be sure if you’re in […]
On Fernando A. Flores’s Valleyesque
The pleasure in reading Hasanthika Sirisena’s Dark Tourist rises from witnessing a curious and insatiable mind at work. […]
On Hasanthika Sirisena’s Dark Tourist
If you are fortunate to live long enough, regrets will inevitably pile up, and the list at the […]
A Review of If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw ...
On January 14, 1963, at the National Conference of Christians and Jews, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel gave a […]
The Subject in a World of Subjects: A Review ...
Winner of the 2021 Frost Place Chapbook Competition and out from Bull City Press, Ae He Lee’s Connotary […]
All That Might Remain: Memories and Moments Held Close in ...
Aviya Kushner grew up in a Hebrew-speaking home in New York. She is the author of Wolf Lamb Bomb (Orison […]
A Portfolio of Poetry by Aviya Kushner
Aviya Kushner’s folio of Ibn Ezra’s travels from Spain to Baghdad over 28 years is as startling as […]