“It wasn’t her fault. She wasn’t the shell I was after.” So ends Analicia Sotelo’s “I’m Trying […]
Reviews
Harvard Psychologist Arnold Modell in “Metaphor—The Bridge Between Feelings and Knowledge,” argues that, “When traumatic memories are activated, […]
Metaphor & Traumatic Memory in Emilia Phillips’ Empty Clip
Inarguably, Kristen Roupenian is best known for her short story “Cat Person,” which exploded the Internet last year […]
You Know You Want to Read This: A Review of ...
It’s possible to read Alejandra Pizarnik’s debut collection of poetry as a kind of midlife crisis. Published in […]
A Midcentury Reckoning: The Most Foreign Country by Alejandra Pizarnik
David Shields, in his seminal text, Reality Hunger, argues that contemporary literature has not kept up with contemporary […]
Reclamation & Agency in Chase Beggrun’s R E D
Jenny George’s The Dream of Reason reminds us of the liminal nature of existence; the poems exist on […]
Liminal States in Jenny George’s The Dream of Reason
Anna Lena Phillips Bell’s skilled employment of repetition, which is the foundation of all poetic forms, creates a […]
To Make, Unmake, and Make Again: A Review of Anna ...
Melissa Stein’s title, Terrible Blooms, is good on its promise to weld the grotesque and the lovely so […]
“I’m not talking about my heart”–A Review of Melissa Stein’s ...
Heather June Gibbons’ debut collection is the literary equivalent of a carnival ride: it jolts, thrills, dizzies: you’ll […]
In Glitter Or In Ash: A Review of Heather June ...
The title page layout of Angela Veronica Wong’s Elsa: An Unauthorized Autobiography breaks its subtitle down the right-hand […]
Shape-shifting and the Subversive Sonnet: A Review of Angela Veronica ...
Procedural poetry + music: this combination might put you in mind of John Cage. And Geoffrey Gatza’s fascinating […]
Ringing the Changes Right: A Review of Geoffrey Gatza’s A ...
In Doe Parker’s The Good House & The Bad House, the reader enters a dreamlike past via the […]