John Amen’s latest book of poetry “Dark Souvenirs” is a haunting exploration of death, suicide, and drug addiction […]
Reviews
Living Fully, Dying Well: A Review of Alison Prine’s Loss and Its Antonym by Nicole Yurcaba In mesmerizing […]
Nicole Yurcaba on Alison Prine’s Loss and Its Antonym
In Saba Husain’s poem Elegy for My Tongue, from a collection with the same title (Terrapin Books, 2023), […]
Miriam Calleja on Elegy for My Tongue by Saba Husain ...
Nothing and no one is immune from the lens of trauma and its effects as humans go about […]
Shannon Vare Christine on Adrie Kusserow’s The Trauma Mantras
Told through a series of eyewitness accounts, Katharine Haake’s What Happened Was is a chilling eco-fable that serves […]
Shannon Vare Christine on What Happened Was by Katharine Haake
While virtually every news outlet continues coverage of the war in Ukraine, the focus of these stories is […]
Shannon Vare Christine on Love Letters to Ukraine from Uyava ...
The cover art of Stephen Massimilla’s newest book, Frank Dark, is a self-portrait. It depicts one human eye […]
Sandra Fees on Stephen Massimilla’s Frank Dark
Lauren Camp’s poetry is remarkable for its ability to bend time, its unexpected word choices and collage of […]
Karin Falcone Krieger on An Eye in Each Square by ...
Earth, Another Mother on Morphine Robert Carr’s rapturously detailed poems sound a call to observe—toward keeping—(ob-, toward, and […]
Jenny Grassl on Robert Carr’s The Heavy of Human Clouds
“Death is a nagging grit, that grain I keep / worrying furiously into the pearl of art— // […]
AE Hines on Morri Creech’s The Sentence
“We folded our feathers at dawn,” Russell Karrick says in his opening poem “Delirium” [p. 1], “perched in […]
AE Hines on Russell Karrick’s The Way Back
Can we rewild? It feels to me like one of the most important questions of our time. Can […]