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“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation,” wrote Thoreau in Walden. The line is often misquoted […]
On Richard Cole’s Song of the Middle Manager
Brimming with pop culture references and an overt defiance and rebellion that oozes heavy mascara and black fishnet […]
On Karyna McGlynn’s 50 Things Kate Bush Taught Me About ...
“Sometimes America breaks our hearts / & sometimes we’d kill for a chance // to do the breaking.” […]
Sometimes America Breaks Our Hearts: A Review by Alice B. ...
Grief is a shifting thing, a process, a practice that the griever returns to like someone might return […]
On Chelsea Dingman’s Through a Small Ghost
If there is ever a poetry collection we need close by us in the night, to stir us […]
On Cameron Morse’s Bad Astrocyte
A well-published prose writer, Emily Franklin now shows polish as a poet in her first collection Tell Me […]
What Is Worth Saving: A Review of Emily Franklin’s Tell ...
Poetry’s role in public life has remained a question at least since Plato expelled the poets from his […]
Refused Transaction: A Review by Daniel Fraser
The year is 1952. Halah Ibrahim is a young teenager when Cairo is set on fire, stoked by […]
Country of Origin: A Review by Katy Dycus
Tomaž is kind of a portmanteau, a suitcase split into two parts. It’s a series of interviews Joshua […]
A Review of Tomaž: A Young Life of Tomaž Šalamun, ...
‘In this blackness, lives matter‘. Hope: Light Leaks, p.57 In a world ravaged by climate disasters, refugee […]
Affirmations Amidst Adversity: Sudeep Sen’s Anthropocene
The poems Jessica Cuello’s Liar, chosen for the 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize, are written primarily in the […]