Part memoir, part ecological treatise, part ars poetica, Sam Taylor’s Book of Fools practices the visual poetics of […]
Reviews
There is a sense of immediacy in this excellent pamphlet by Katie Farris, as though we are reading […]
A Review Katie Farris’ A Net To Catch My Body ...
Four months ago, I received a review copy of Paul Nemser’s 2021 collection of poems, A Thousand Curves. […]
A Review of Paul Nemser’s Poetry Collection: A Thousand Curves, ...
The cold open from Saturday Night Live, Saturday, November 12, 2016. Kate McKinnon’s impeccable Hilary Clinton singing Leonard […]
How Refrains Work: M.I. Devine’s Warhol’s Mother’s Pantry
All the Rage. Like something that’s trending. Or a collection of fury. Or, as in Rosamond S. King’s […]
Living is Impossible Without Life: A Review of Rosamond ...
Ollie Tucker is a recent college graduate who finds his way to teaching at a small community college […]
A Review of Clifford Garstang’s Oliver’s Travels by Christina Chiu
I have no history with Stephanie Strickland’s work. My reading of her new and collected poems from 1985-2019, […]
I Have Built a Language: Stephanie Strickland’s How the Universe ...
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, […]