
My public library is not a very good one. Once I was at the desk to take out […]
My public library is not a very good one. Once I was at the desk to take out […]
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.~ Aeschylus, in Ancient Greece […]
This is indeed an accomplished novel by a poet. The complex and poetic plot structure is as intricate […]
Leslie Ullman’s artistic career is surprising. Often praised for her attention to craft and for poems of mental […]
“Death is the great egret at the swamp, picking newly hatched green herons / from their cypress nest” […]
The human tendency to categorize, organize, and compartmentalize life events and occurrences is a strong instinct. This doesn’t […]
Leah Umansky’s Of Tyrant is a searing exploration of the fracturing of contemporary Americanlife. Umansky navigates personal and […]
In his scholarly addendum, “A Critical Postscript: Cyborgs, Whalemen, and Other Voyagers in Moby-Dick,” Steve Mentz notes that […]
The Visit (BlazeVOX Books, 2024) is a coming of age novel as well as a suspenseful mystery, that […]
A character in Jordan Dotson’s The Ballad of Falling Rock wonders about singer Saul Crabtree: “Don’t he understand […]
Jaime Wendt’s compelling and beautiful second poetry collection, Laughing in Yiddish, meditates on identity, resilience, and the relationship […]
The epigraph to Holaday Mason’s new collection of poems provides a keen insight into the urges driving her […]