In Austin Smith’s sophomore collection, Flyover Country, there are bucolic echoes of what made Smith’s first collection, Almanac, […]
Kristina Marie Darling
Mary is a River is the third collection by Rachel Jamison Webster that I’ve read. What draws me […]
Making Faith Possible—On Rachel Jamison Webster’s Mary is a River
Only, perhaps, in a poem by David Tomas Martinez is one likely to encounter, in the span of […]
“Being made again”—Hyper-talk & Grace in David Tomas Martinez’ Post ...
“It wasn’t her fault. She wasn’t the shell I was after.” So ends Analicia Sotelo’s “I’m Trying […]
Returning to the “shell”—on Analicia Sotelo’s Virgin
Harvard Psychologist Arnold Modell in “Metaphor—The Bridge Between Feelings and Knowledge,” argues that, “When traumatic memories are activated, […]
Metaphor & Traumatic Memory in Emilia Phillips’ Empty Clip
Inarguably, Kristen Roupenian is best known for her short story “Cat Person,” which exploded the Internet last year […]
You Know You Want to Read This: A Review of ...
It’s possible to read Alejandra Pizarnik’s debut collection of poetry as a kind of midlife crisis. Published in […]
A Midcentury Reckoning: The Most Foreign Country by Alejandra Pizarnik
David Shields, in his seminal text, Reality Hunger, argues that contemporary literature has not kept up with contemporary […]
Reclamation & Agency in Chase Beggrun’s R E D
Jenny George’s The Dream of Reason reminds us of the liminal nature of existence; the poems exist on […]
Liminal States in Jenny George’s The Dream of Reason
Anna Lena Phillips Bell’s skilled employment of repetition, which is the foundation of all poetic forms, creates a […]
To Make, Unmake, and Make Again: A Review of Anna ...
Melissa Stein’s title, Terrible Blooms, is good on its promise to weld the grotesque and the lovely so […]
“I’m not talking about my heart”–A Review of Melissa Stein’s ...
Heather June Gibbons’ debut collection is the literary equivalent of a carnival ride: it jolts, thrills, dizzies: you’ll […]