One night in 2012, Oliver Nguyen carefully removed all of the family pictures from their frames in his […] On Photos That Lie & Poems of Hard Truths: Diana ...March 12, 2024 in Uncategorized by admin
This poetry collection is full of holes. That is to say—this poetry collection is full of “portals.” As […] Portals to The Places That Hold: The Self-Forgetting Poetry of ...March 12, 2024 in Uncategorized by admin
Translated from the Ukrainian by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps, the poems in Serhiy Zhadan’s How Fire Descends: […] “Of all the literature, of all the language:” A Review ...March 12, 2024 in Uncategorized by admin
The writings collected in renowned short story writer and novelist, George Singleton’s debut book of essays are well […] Nothing to Say (But a Lot to Show): George Singleton’s ...February 14, 2024 in Uncategorized by admin
What is it to read, to write? What is it to attempt to read Jay Wright? I grope […] The Red-Tinted Grammar of the Day: The Polyphonic Poetics of ...February 14, 2024 in Uncategorized by admin
Especially since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ostap Slyvynsky’s poems have become translated and more accessible for […] “Stay with me, sleepless night as black as soot:” War, ...February 14, 2024 in Uncategorized by admin
Frederika Amalia Finkelstein’s Forgetting is definitely one of those novels that a reader begins reading and cannot put […] Killing Time with the Memory of Absence: A Review of ...January 15, 2024 in Uncategorized by Kristina Marie Darling
In Elijah Burrell’s new collection, Skies of Blur, Burrell provides mashups of the inner and outer, of the […] Grief and Transformation in Elijah Burrell’s Skies of Blur: A ...January 15, 2024 in Uncategorized by admin
“I want to create art that’s unpredictable,” says the speaker in “steamboat,” one of eleven interstitial essays from […] The Art of Unpredictability: It’s fun to be a person ...January 15, 2024 in Uncategorized by admin
In Someone Who Isn’t Me, the debut novel by musician Geoff Rickly, the slightly fictionalized protagonist Geoff travels […] A Perilous Psychedelic Trip: Geoff Rickly’s Someone Who Isn’t Me, ...December 14, 2023 in Uncategorized by Kristina Marie Darling
Luke Johnson’s poetry collection Quiver is astonishing in its violent imagery and brutal emotional honesty. It depicts not […] On Quiver by Luke Johnson: A Review by Natalie MarinoDecember 14, 2023 in Uncategorized by Kristina Marie Darling
In the latest publication of Mykola Horbal’s Details of an Hourglass: Poems from the Gulag, translated by Myrosia […] Imploring a Spark of Mercy: A Review of Mykola Horbal’s ...December 14, 2023 in Uncategorized by admin