What is home? Is it a place, a person, a feeling, a sense of belonging? Or all of […]
Kristina Marie Darling
Jenny Xie’s second poetry collection, Eye Level, reveals the prowess of a new contemporary literary great. The title […]
“How do eyes and ears keep pace?” A Review of ...
A metaphor that extends across a poem, defying clichés and breaches of clarity or cohesion, is already a […]
Racial Allegory and Complex Contradiction in Rajiv Mohabir’s The Taxidermist’s ...
If you read Kristin Robertson’s debut book once, you really ought to read it again. In the very […]
Dynamism and Defamiliarization in Kristin Robertson’s Surgical Wing
Christopher Isherwood once paid tribute to the technical facility of his friend W.H. Auden, a facility evident even […]
A Meditation on Form and Voice in Maryann Corbett’s Street ...
Towards the end of her debut book, Some Beheadings, Aditi Machado’s speaker in “Prospect” ponders their ontological nature: […]
“I’m not human, I’m grammarian”: Life, Being, and Grammar in ...
It’s inevitable that social media’s ubiquitous presence in most of our lives has changed not just the way […]
“Make Love Out of the Kick and the Punch”: A ...
Tarfia Faizullah’s new collection of poems, Registers of Illuminated Villages, engages with issues of grief, trauma, ancestry, and […]
“With Every Register of Her Seven Tongues”: A Review of ...
In Oceanic, her fourth collection of poetry, Aimee Nezhukumatathil writes a series of love letters to the world […]
Falling in Love with the World: A Review of Aimee ...
_______________________________________________________________ Sarah J. Sloat divides her time between […]
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Sarah J. Sloat
“The Main Setting” Let’s remember that when Mary Richards shows up in Minneapolis, she’s a […]
PITTSBURGH WAS MY MINNEAPOLIS: An Essay in Episodes by ...
I’ve finally found the river, the one where my enemies will never float by, where the […]