When I shared a poem from Scared Violent Like Horses to a friend who has extensively traveled the […]
Reviews
Sara Goodman’s Starfish begins in a polar vortex. The speaker lives in Chicago where, “The Northern Lights cast orange […]
High Visibility in the Queer Polar Vortex: A Review of ...
Dylan Thomas defined poetry as “the rhythmic, inevitably narrative, movement from an over-clothed blindness to a naked vision.” […]
Personal Narrative in Lynne McEniry’s some other wet landscape and ...
What we do: a statement and question. The sorts of ways we interact with life and death, delights […]
“The Most Important Word: A Review of Michele Bombardier’s What ...
Actual Miles, Jim Warner’s newest collection of poetry, is a moving compilation of diverse pieces reflecting experiences of […]
“Impermanence and Racial Otherness in Jim Warner’s Actual Miles”
Joseph Harrington’s collection Of Some Sky is a highly organized mess, and he wants you to know it. […]
Behold Thy Little Kings: On Joseph Harrington’s Of Some Sky
Tamara Zbrizher’s striking debut, Tell Me Something Good, opens with a refreshing confession of ignorance: “I don’t know […]
Turning Over of Self: A Review of Tamara Zbrizher’s Tell ...
The first time I heard Jessica Laser read from Sergei Kuzmich From All Sides at the “No Fair […]
Fully There: Jessica Laser’s Literary Mediations of an Experience
After reading each poem in Jennifer Franklin’s No Small Gift, I had to put the book down for […]
“A Koan in my Mouth”: A Review of Jennifer Franklin’s ...
Companionship, loss, motherhood, and the many other forms love takes features in the thematic foreground of Sandra Cisneros’ […]
Love Bites: On Sandra Cisneros’ Puro Amor
John James is a collage artist. He cuts and pastes, making neighbors of images across continents, across centuries. […]
Mutual Absence: A Review of John James’ The Milk Hours
I think of Jesus, the circuitous way he wove images together to explain to his disciples things they […]