Saturated in myth, from the biblical Garden of Eden to Eurydice, Carlie Hoffman’s new collection contemplates a world […]
A Celebration of Literary Criticism
Precarious is the perfect title for this new and selected collection of poems. Throughout, Judith Pacht expresses a […]
Precarious by Judith Pacht, reviewed by Charles Rammelkamp
“Pure thought is music,” writes Laurie Sheck in Cyborg Fever (13). Using this quote as a model, the […]
Laurie Sheck’s Cyborg Fever, reviewed by Natalie Arita
Devotion is a craving carving our lives. Inherently, we yield our devotion; inherently, we pull toward people and […]
Hymns of Devotion: Cassandra Manzolillo’s I Want to Take You ...
William Huhn wants “a second soul—a beaten one would do,” but distraction seems to flicker everywhere. One moment […]
The Soul of Distraction: William Huhn’s Bachelor Holiday , reviewed by ...
Poet Lesley Wheeler, on her blog, writes, “Without the work of the fungal kingdom, death would overwhelm the […]
Are We All Mushrooms? Mycocosmic by Lesley Wheeler, reviewed by ...
What’s not to like about an exuberant love poem? I mean such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “How do […]
“A Large Enough Space”: Jean Nordhaus’s The Music of Being, ...
According to the author, the poems in Jalousie—winner of Tupelo Press’s Berkshire Prize and Allyson Paty’s first full-length […]
Allyson Paty’s Jalousie, reviewed by Kirsten McAteer
Chapter 1, “A Minor Movement of Muscles, 1993” is told from Marnie’s point of view. Marnie’s in the […]
Junction of Earth and Sky: A heart-breaking, lyrical novel about ...
Humans have a long tradition of letter writing. While scant in the contemporary western society that forms my […]
Ripple: An Intimate Exchange of Urgency and Hope Between an ...
The temptation is very great to review Mikhail Iossel’s book Sentence by taking up the challenge he put […]
SENTENCE by Mihail Iossel reviewed by Sven Birkerts
Time in the 2020s has had an odd quality. The decade started with a pandemic that stopped the […]