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Reviews
The Future Will Call You Something Else is situated in place as much as it is in displacement. […]
Katie Richards on Natasha Sajé’s The Future Will Call You ...
Section I “The hawk circles”, provides a testing ground for the limits of endurance and requisite empathy as […]
Cheryl Passinisi on Mary Pacifico Curtis’s Hawk’s Cry
Stronger Than Fear: Poems of Empowerment, Compassion, and Social Justice (2022)is not so much a poetry compilation as […]
Shannon Nakai on Stronger Than Fear, edited by Carol Alexander ...
In her book Questions of Travel, Elizabeth Bishop muses: ... Oh, tourist,is this how this country is going […]
An American Prufrock: Shannon Nakai on Nick Courtright’s The Forgotten ...
The cover of Kelle Groom’s latest book, How to Live (Tupelo Press, 2023) demurely suggests that it is […]
Rebecca Kaiser Gibson on How to Live by Kelle Groom
Sappho has always been an influencer, even when her poems were burned when the Great Library at Alexandria […]
Songs of the 10th Muse: Leslie Friedman on Dan Beachy-Quick’s ...
I’ve written reviews about three other books on the topic of childhood sexual abuse over the years, and […]
The Aftermath of Abuse: An Exquisite, Transformational Upheaval: Elizabeth Strauss ...
James Morehead’s The Plague Doctor is a celebration of the ways art can be experienced. Inspired by street […]
“Our Artisans Suggest You Linger in Each Hall:” Karin Falcone ...
Not everyone will read the physical copy of Little Astronaut by J. Hope Stein, but in doing so, […]
Shannon Vare Christine on J. Hope Stein’s little astronaut
A book of poetry can land on your lap heavily during a time of contemplation, or it can […]
Slippery & Untameable: Miriam Calleja on J. Mae Barizo’s Tender ...
As a woman, I am concerned about the body. As a US-American woman, I am concerned about our […]