Tender and Unsparing: A Review of Leah Naomi Green’s The More Extravagant Feast
“It will only be love that I love you with.” The world, held inside another world. This interconnectedness is at the core of Leah…
The Human Impossibility
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Content warning: suicide In inventive narratives reminiscent of Russell Edson’s work, in Blue Whale Phenomena, Steve Castro contemplates questions of life and death,…
Forgiveness Is Another Place
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Bully Love (Press 53, 2019) by Patricia Colleen Murphy “My only power is this ability to name,” proclaims the speaker of Bully…
Broken Systems, Broken Lines: On Three Chapbooks
White: An Abstract by Joy Katz Abstract, by definition: Adjective existing in thought or by definition but not having a physical or concrete existence…
Sorrow the Past
A review of I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (University of Pittsburgh Press) by Tiana Clark As Adrienne Rich suggested, “in…
Two Poems
Thy Kingdom Come/ Thy Will be Done Hallowed be the name of thy children bagged & buried beneath snow the woman strangled in her…