Like the title of Jenny Molberg’s Refusal, the reader’s initial reaction is to refuse this agonizing, electric work […]
Kristina Marie Darling
“What is the right time to announce you’re named after your dead sister?” asks Kristin Czarnecki, professor of […]
Named for a Dead Sibling: Memoir and Literary Exploration in ...
When one acquires and reads a Yusef Komunyakaa collection, expectations range from the philosophical to the spiritual, from […]
“A flicker of wings and eyes”: Creation, Evolution, and Critique ...
“The true subject of poetry is the loss of the beloved,” claimed the poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz. In […]
Jewel of Anguish: Rachel Eliza Griffiths’s Seeing the Body
If you open Danielle Vogel’s book, Edges & Fray, a few pages in, you’ll see on the […]
Breathing Record: A Review of Edges & Fray
Consider the materials from which an arrow can be made: wood, aluminum, carbon, fiberglass. Each material used to […]
“Even this brief thought is endless:” An Analytical Review of ...
Since briefly working with Laura van den Berg on a story of my own years ago, I have […]
Conflicting Narratives and Shifting Identities in Laura van den Berg’s ...
With such a title as She-Giant in the Land of Here-We-Go-Again, maybe it would be best for you, […]
Just a Volcano Under the Ice: A Review of ...
Fiction overlays fact and past folds into present in Tina Barry’s prose poetry collection Beautiful Raft, an imagined […]
A Life in Shadow: A Review of Beautiful Raft by ...
It is truly an honor to introduce this new poem by Heather McHugh. McHugh is like no other […]
An Introduction to Heather McHugh by Kristina Marie Darling
It had been a while since we’d finished eating, but as it was my turn to do the […]
The Dream Team by Agustín Cadena – translated by Patricia ...
It was an honor to see some prose pieces from Nils Michals come across the TQR inbox; I’m […]