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Inscribing poems with Greek myth, especially in the West, is a cultural habit. The Greek tragedies somehow speak […]
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Carolyn Oliver is the author of The Alcestis Machine (Acre Books, forthcoming 2024), Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the […]
Carolyn Oliver — “Mock Moon”
Jen Beagin, a master of small-town strangeness, has not strayed from her literary strengths with her third novel, […]
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Kelly Sather’s debut story collection, Small in Real Life, is reflective sunglasses, the smack of flip flops, stardom […]
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There are three themes of this prize-winning debut book by Kewku Abimbola: Bridge-making, Naming, and Symbol as Language, […]
Saltwater Demands a Psalm by Kewku Abimbola, Winner of the ...
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. […]
On Disease of Kings by Anders Carlson-Wee: A Review by ...
George Sarantaris’s poems pack exceptional force, beauty, ambiguity, and longing into tiny stones. The poems in Abyss and […]
On George Sarantaris’s Abyss and Song: Selected Poems, translated by ...
Yours, Creature is a collection of hauntingly dark poetry written in the form of letters—known as epistolary poems—in […]
Parental Abandonment, Unhealthy Attachment & Longing for Love through the ...
Down Here We Come Up, Sara Johnson Allen’s debut novel, tells a story both focused on place and […]
Intersections are Everything: On Sara Johnson Allen’s Down Here We ...
Honest, real, and lyrical, Arthur Kayzakian’s The Book of Redacted Paintings arrives at a moment in current events […]
On Arthur Kayzakian’s The Book of Redacted Paintings: A Review ...
If you have ever been in the southwest, you’d notice the landscape, without the houses and towers, is […]