Rhapsody of an artificial river filled with grass Winter arrives. The Water Conservation Bureau hides water in the […]
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“Home is wherever I’m with you” or “Almost heaven, West Virginia” or “living in a shotgun shack” or […]
A Review of Benjamin Niespodziany’s no farther than the end ...
the castration of a minor god is the third full length book of poems by john compton. The […]
A Review of john compton’s the castration of a minor ...
The last time I was in Midwood, Brooklyn, I was there for a wake to which the daughter […]
A Review of Jana Prikryl’s Midwood
Joy Harjo’s poem “Perhaps the World Ends Here” asserts from its first line that food is at the […]
Taste: A Book of Small Bites, by Jehanne Dubrow
We are bound together by what we hold. We are holding what binds us. We are held together […]
A Review of Be Holding by Ross Gay
Phong Nguyen’s post-colonial and feminist retelling of the Trưng sisters, national heroes of Vietnam, humanizes these women who […]
She-Kings Against Empire: A Review of Phong Nguyen’s Bronze Drum: ...
Tenured in the art of balancing multiple simultaneous perspectives, Maggie Nelson, in her new book of essays, On […]
A Review of Maggie Nelson’s On Freedom: Four Songs of ...
In the electric hum of Fernando A. Flores’s fiction, you might not always be sure if you’re in […]
On Fernando A. Flores’s Valleyesque
The pleasure in reading Hasanthika Sirisena’s Dark Tourist rises from witnessing a curious and insatiable mind at work. […]
On Hasanthika Sirisena’s Dark Tourist
If you are fortunate to live long enough, regrets will inevitably pile up, and the list at the […]
A Review of If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw ...
On January 14, 1963, at the National Conference of Christians and Jews, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel gave a […]