On Quiver by Luke Johnson: A Review by Natalie Marino
Luke Johnson’s poetry collection Quiver is astonishing in its violent imagery and brutal emotional honesty. It depicts not only childhood trauma, but also the necessary resultant grief and recovery...
View ArticleA Perilous Psychedelic Trip: Geoff Rickly’s Someone Who Isn’t Me, Reviewed by...
In Someone Who Isn’t Me, the debut novel by musician Geoff Rickly, the slightly fictionalized protagonist Geoff travels to Mexico for an addiction treatment that uses the psychedelic ibogaine, illegal...
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“everyday people always echo myth”: A Conversation with Katie Hartsock with a...
Wolf Tree Cover Image Katie Hartsock Author Photo Katie Hartsock is the author of two poetry collections, Wolf Trees (2023) and Bed of Impatiens (2016), both from Able Muse Press. Her poems appear...
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“such a feminine book”: A Conversation with Jade Lascelles with a Portfolio...
Jade Lascelles is a writer, musician, and artist based in Colorado. She is the author of the full-length collection The Invevitable (Gesture Press, 2021). Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, various...
View ArticleThe Art of Unpredictability: It’s fun to be a person I don’t know by Chachi...
“I want to create art that’s unpredictable,” says the speaker in “steamboat,” one of eleven interstitial essays from Chachi Hauser’s memoir, It’s fun to be a person I don’t know. As a direct...
View ArticleGrief and Transformation in Elijah Burrell’s Skies of Blur: A Review by...
In Elijah Burrell’s new collection, Skies of Blur, Burrell provides mashups of the inner and outer, of the living and the dead, of song and dirge, faith and doubt as the reader journeys with the poet...
View ArticleKilling Time with the Memory of Absence: A Review of Frederika Amalia...
Frederika Amalia Finkelstein’s Forgetting is definitely one of those novels that a reader begins reading and cannot put down. The novel follows Alma, who nighttime wanderings through Paris are part of...
View Article“Stay with me, sleepless night as black as soot:” War, Home, and the Power of...
Especially since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ostap Slyvynsky’s poems have become translated and more accessible for English-speaking readers. The latest collection of his poems, Winter King,...
View ArticleThe Red-Tinted Grammar of the Day: The Polyphonic Poetics of Jay Wright: A...
What is it to read, to write? What is it to attempt to read Jay Wright? I grope about in an obscure darkness, grasping for straws, but straws do not, not on their own, allow us to stay afloat on the...
View ArticleNothing to Say (But a Lot to Show): George Singleton’s Asides, Reviewed by...
The writings collected in renowned short story writer and novelist, George Singleton’s debut book of essays are well described by author Abigail Thomas, whose cover blurb reads “the next best thing to...
View Article“Of all the literature, of all the language:” A Review of Serhiy Zhadan’s How...
Translated from the Ukrainian by Virlana Tkacz and Wanda Phipps, the poems in Serhiy Zhadan’s How Fire Descends: New and Selected Poems consider all the ways language matters not only during wartime,...
View ArticlePortals to The Places That Hold: The Self-Forgetting Poetry of John Davis...
This poetry collection is full of holes. That is to say—this poetry collection is full of “portals.” As Scottish poet Don Paterson put it in “Portal Agony” for the UK’s Literary Review, good poems,...
View ArticleOn Photos That Lie & Poems of Hard Truths: Diana Khoi Nguyen’s Root...
One night in 2012, Oliver Nguyen carefully removed all of the family pictures from their frames in his parent’s home. Using a X-Acto knife, he excised his image from the family’s photographic history...
View ArticleA Review of Mikeas Sanchez’s How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems by...
Translated from Zoque and Spanish by Wendy Call and Shook, and published as part of Milkweed Editions’s Seedbank series, Mikeas Sanchez’s How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems is fiercely personal,...
View ArticleWhere Fascism Lurks: A Review of Zachary Solomon’s A Brutal Design by Nicole...
In the past few years, an alarming number of scholars, historians, and social commentators have established and upheld the view that fascism is on the rise in the United States and that the democratic...
View ArticleLittle by Little, a Lyrical Life: Tiny Extravaganzas by Diane Mehta, reviewed...
Life’s deepest meaning is often found in the brief moments we each accumulate along the way. How do you make sense of change? What is your purpose? Where is this going? Poet Diane Mehta has composed a...
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