I have no history with Stephanie Strickland’s work. My reading of her new and collected poems from 1985-2019, […]
Reviews
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 ...
Elaine Scarry once noted that there are “many errors made about beauty.” We tend to forget […]
“The Etiolating Stars”: On Sorrow, Sentiment, & the Sublime ...
Twila Newey’s new novel Sylvia explores the constricting confines of religion, and the ways in which a deft […]
What Deserves To Grow Wild: Review of Twila Newey’s Novel Sylvia
Patrick Madden’s latest essay collection, Disparates, embraces tradition and experimentation. The title comes from the Latin disparātus (separate, […]
The Futile and the Essential: A Review of Patrick Madden’s ...
Asiya Wadud’s Syncope is a pensive enunciation of incredible injustice. This visceral illustration of the refugee crisis reclaims […]
Violent Inactions: Rage and Reclamation in Asiya Wadud’s Syncope
What is the price of true individualism? One might, at first, answer “Individualism is priceless.” Then, one might […]
Mirrors, Wings, and Invented Things: Individualism and Otherness in Katie ...
During these months of uncertainty, many of us have sought refuge in books that might signal hope or […]
Traveling in the Undersong: Review of Marianne Boruch’s The Anti-Grief
Perhaps it is a benevolent mechanism of the mind, the amnesia we develop in adulthood that spares us […]
The Education of Angie Rubio: A Review of Living Color: ...
In this mise en abyme of abandoned places, times, and people, readers first enter Americana via “The Bell […]
“This house will outlast:” Paranormal and Verbal Delights in Adam ...
Opening most books, we can flip from the title page to the first poem. Opening this book, though, […]