Max Ritvo’s poetry moves from strength to strength: that of knowing image; of a vivid metaphor returned to […]
Reviews
Ocean Vuong’s stunning debut collection Night Sky With Exit Wounds meditates on belonging and exile, fathers and sons, […]
Body, Language in Ocean Vuong’s Night Sky With Exit Wounds
Gabriel Blackwell describes Madeleine E, a project he began as a personal rumination on Hitchcock’s Vertigo, as “a […]
Madeleine E. by Gabriel Blackwell
Kathleen Ossip’s first book The Search Engine (winner of the 2002 Honickman Prize) and her second, The Cold […]
The Do-Over Poems: Kathleen Ossip Shows Us How to Remember
From the first sentence of The Sorrow Proper (“The library may close…”), impending ends begin to accrue. Truly, […]
The Sorrow Proper by Lindsey Drager
Seth Landman’s poetry is not perfect. It’s digressive and recursive, rambling and at times even ranting. It feels […]
The Luminous Cracks in Seth Landman’s Confidence
The collection’s first poem is a call to attention. A tolling. “Belle,” and its homophonic first line, “The […]
This Is How We Will Mourn: On Ashaki M. Jackson’s ...
Goodbye Mexico: Poems of Remembrance is, at its heart, a series of poems of love for the nation […]
Goodbye, Mexico: Poems of Remembrance, Edited by Sarah Cortez
Torque. The tendency of a force to rotate an object about an axis, fulcrum, or pivot. Just as […]
Oblige the Light by Danuta E. Kosk-Kosicka
A native of Aleppo who grew up in Benghazi and relocated to Milan, the Maronite and opera-lover Basili […]
Dark Tour: A Review of Alessandro Spina’s The Confines ...
“The scorpion/ is her sigil. Her love song on the battlefield,/ her war-cry in the senseless fields. Survive/ […]
Latest Volcano by Tana Jean Welch
To read u&i, Cassandra Smith’s frustratingly gorgeous and gorgeously frustrating full-length collection of poetry, is to be immersed […]