In her book Questions of Travel, Elizabeth Bishop muses: ... Oh, tourist,is this how this country is going […] An American Prufrock: Shannon Nakai on Nick Courtright’s The Forgotten ...July 30, 2023 in Reviews tagged Nick Courtright / Shannon Nakai by Tiffany Troy
Stronger Than Fear: Poems of Empowerment, Compassion, and Social Justice (2022)is not so much a poetry compilation as […] Shannon Nakai on Stronger Than Fear, edited by Carol Alexander ...July 30, 2023 in Reviews tagged Carol Alexander / Shannon Nakai / Stephen Massimilla by Tiffany Troy
Grace Talusan’s powerhouse memoir The Body Papers is an intimate, explosive account of a life marked by migration, […] The Corporeal Nature of the In-Between: Identities and Migration in ...July 14, 2020 in Editor's Feature tagged Grace Talusan / Shannon Nakai by Kristina Marie Darling
Fifteen years after Tupelo Press released his first collection of poetry, Ilya Kaminsky delivers a stunning interplay of […] Deafness and Silence as Weapons of Resistance or Scapegoats?: On ...August 29, 2019 in Reviews tagged Ilya Kaminsky / Shannon Nakai by Kristina Marie Darling
“It wasn’t her fault. She wasn’t the shell I was after.” So ends Analicia Sotelo’s “I’m Trying […] Returning to the “shell”—on Analicia Sotelo’s VirginJanuary 30, 2019 in Reviews tagged Analicia Sotelo / Shannon Nakai by Kristina Marie Darling
Jenny Xie’s second poetry collection, Eye Level, reveals the prowess of a new contemporary literary great. The title […] “How do eyes and ears keep pace?” A Review of ...August 30, 2018 in Reviews tagged Jenny Xie / Shannon Nakai by Kristina Marie Darling
In Oceanic, her fourth collection of poetry, Aimee Nezhukumatathil writes a series of love letters to the world […] Falling in Love with the World: A Review of Aimee ...June 28, 2018 in Reviews tagged Amy Nezhukumatathil / Shannon Nakai by Kristina Marie Darling