A hybrid culture of Indigenous folklore and mysticism mingled with Latin American magic realism and imbued with the […]
Kristina Marie Darling
This collection of a dozen essays recording the author’s thoughts on poets, their poems, the mechanics and sensibilities […]
To Combine the Personal and the Critical: A Review ...
“For my mother & her mother & hers.” The dedication leads the reader to expect poems about women, […]
Pulling No Punches: A Review of Some Are Always Hungry, ...
Tim Dlugos was turning 26 when he came to New York for the first time in 1976. His […]
An Act of Recovery: A Review of New York Diary
Very infrequently is it that readers find a contemporary poetry collection that presents the past in such vivid […]
Poems of Witness: An Examination of History and Cultural Complexity ...
Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ fascination with marine life started no different than anyone else’s. She visited an aquarium and […]
Response to Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons From ...
According to some psychological studies (like the Adverse Childhood Experience study), Ben Garcia should probably be dead. And […]
“I am the son of almost nothing”: A Review of ...
In Poetic Encounters in the Americas: Remarkable Bridge, poet and scholar Peter Ramos explores the tensions and affiliations […]
Review of Poetic Encounters in the Americas: Remarkable Bridge
I have no history with Stephanie Strickland’s work. My reading of her new and collected poems from 1985-2019, […]
I Have Built a Language: Stephanie Strickland’s How the Universe ...
Anchored by myth and lore, the witch archetype is newly entering the limelight on her own prismatic terms, […]
“How do you come to know Magic?”: Pam Grossman and ...
Author’s note: Meg Shevenock is a friend of the reviewer. What does it mean to tell the story […]
That Was Then: The New Time of Memoir in Meg ...
Fans of Marilynne Robinson’s Housekeeping, road trip narratives, evocative prose, or stories that feature strong female leads and […]