It is not so funny (to him, the writer, or to me, the reader). He punctuates his messages […]
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My public library is not a very good one. Once I was at the desk to take out […]
Breathing Wild Creatures: Karin Falcone on Listen to the Golden ...
There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.~ Aeschylus, in Ancient Greece […]
Craving and Grief: Miriam Calleja Reviews Phantom Number by Spring ...
This is indeed an accomplished novel by a poet. The complex and poetic plot structure is as intricate […]
Observations and Astonishments: Rebecca Kaiser Gibson on Paradise Close by ...
Leslie Ullman’s artistic career is surprising. Often praised for her attention to craft and for poems of mental […]
Kathleen Bednarek on Leslie Ullman’s Unruly Tree
“Death is the great egret at the swamp, picking newly hatched green herons / from their cypress nest” […]
Katie Manning’s 28,065 Nights: A Retrospective by Jonathan Fletcher
The human tendency to categorize, organize, and compartmentalize life events and occurrences is a strong instinct. This doesn’t […]
Shannon Vare Christine on Amanda Shaw’s It Will Have Been ...
Leah Umansky’s Of Tyrant is a searing exploration of the fracturing of contemporary Americanlife. Umansky navigates personal and […]
Lizzy Itkin on Leah Umansky’s Of Tyrant
In his scholarly addendum, “A Critical Postscript: Cyborgs, Whalemen, and Other Voyagers in Moby-Dick,” Steve Mentz notes that […]
Charles Rammelkamp on Steve Mentz’s Sailing Without Ahab
The Visit (BlazeVOX Books, 2024) is a coming of age novel as well as a suspenseful mystery, that […]
The Experimental Novel Comes of Age: Karin Falcone on The ...
A character in Jordan Dotson’s The Ballad of Falling Rock wonders about singer Saul Crabtree: “Don’t he understand […]
Cristina Deptula on Jordan Dotson’s The Ballad of Falling Rock
Jaime Wendt’s compelling and beautiful second poetry collection, Laughing in Yiddish, meditates on identity, resilience, and the relationship […]