“Pure thought is music,” writes Laurie Sheck in Cyborg Fever (13). Using this quote as a model, the […]
Uncategorized
Poet Lesley Wheeler, on her blog, writes, “Without the work of the fungal kingdom, death would overwhelm the […]
Are We All Mushrooms? Mycocosmic by Lesley Wheeler, reviewed by ...
What’s not to like about an exuberant love poem? I mean such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “How do […]
“A Large Enough Space”: Jean Nordhaus’s The Music of Being, ...
Chapter 1, “A Minor Movement of Muscles, 1993” is told from Marnie’s point of view. Marnie’s in the […]
Junction of Earth and Sky: A heart-breaking, lyrical novel about ...
Humans have a long tradition of letter writing. While scant in the contemporary western society that forms my […]
Ripple: An Intimate Exchange of Urgency and Hope Between an ...
The temptation is very great to review Mikhail Iossel’s book Sentence by taking up the challenge he put […]
SENTENCE by Mihail Iossel reviewed by Sven Birkerts
Time in the 2020s has had an odd quality. The decade started with a pandemic that stopped the […]
Review of Heidi Seaborn’s tic tic tic by Kirsten McAteer
It is not so funny (to him, the writer, or to me, the reader). He punctuates his messages […]
“His ravaged animal heart”: SENTENCE: stories, by Mikhail Iossel, reviewed ...
AT RISK, Teresa Cader’s fourth book of poems, winner of the Richard Snyder Memorial Prize (selected by Mark […]
AT RISK by Teresa Cader, Reviewed by S.D. Lishan
Habitat is a finely tuned device for reflecting on the violence of our present. Across nine stories, Case […]
Patterns in the tapestry of our oppression: A Review of ...
“This is not a story about logic,” the unnamed narrator of Natalie Bakopoulos’s Archipelago reminds us, as she […]
Archipelago by Natalie Bakopoulos, reviewed by Devon Halliday
On the cool side of any dystopia lies its counterpart: the promise of utopia. And if utopia is […]