Method Acting: A Review of Dad Jokes from Late in the Patriarchy
byIt’s possible one could go their entire lives and experience a single death, only their own. The aftermath of unpredictable tragedy, there would be…
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On Erasure and The Sea Came Up and Drowned by Rachel Jamison Webster
byA Conversation between Claire Wahmanholm and Hannah VanderHart EcoTheo: In Webster’s introduction to The Sea Came Up and Drowned, where she contextualizes her book’s…
Immigrating into the Absurd: A Review of Tropicália by Ananda Lima
byTropicália is a book that doesn’t pull its punches or steer away from the absurd, pulling in readers from the first line, “She devoured…
And Yet There Is Hope: A Review of Dialogues with Rising Tides by Kelli Russell Agodon
byDialogues with Rising Tides testifies to how we are inextricably intertwined in a web of ecological disaster, intergenerational trauma, and a persistent murmuring chorus…
The Twoness of Truth: A Review of Ananda Lima’s Amblyopia
byIn Amblyopia, Ananda Lima interrogates the imprecision of sight, the movement from one language to another, the blurred space in between. The opening poem,…
On Adoration: An Interview with Joyelle McSweeney
byEcoTheo Review: For our Adoration issue, we are speaking with writers about themes of Adoration, and as the author of ten books of poetry,…
Destinations and Directions to Two Worlds: A Review of Moisés Park’s Y el verso cae al aula
byAt first glance, the most noticeable thing about Y el verso cae al aula (And the verse falls into the classroom) is a picture…
An Interview with Ellen Davis
byWe spoke via Zoom (as don’t we all, these days) with Dr. Ellen Davis in the days immediately following the Trumpist terrorist attack on…
Backyard Cathedral Kit
byStep One: Sweep compost of your midnights into flowerbeds. Spiral paths to the center to entice the improbable bee. Building a garden to see…
The Language of Women
byI have in front of me two collections which should shake the foundations of what a person thinks they know about conception, child loss,…