Some Are Always Hungry: An Interview With Jihyun Yun
byOur Interviews Editor Esteban Rodríguez speaks with Jihyun Yun on the importance of family and place, the effects of diaspora and war, and the…
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Digging for Truth: A Review of Ray Ball’s Lararium and Marilyn McCabe’s Being Many Seeds
byLararium by Ray Ball. Variant Literature, 2020. 38 pages. $10. Being Many Seeds by Marilyn McCabe. Grayson Books, 2020. 20 pages. $12. All archaeology…
Come and Roam: An Interview With Hannah Anderson
byOur Managing Editor Alexandria Barbera speaks with Hannah Anderson about her latest book Turning of Days (Moody Publishers, 2021). Both captivating and illuminating, Anderson’s book…
Touched: A Review of Caw by Michael Waters
byA critique leveled at the late Alan Dugan was that his poetry, although consistent across collections, was at times too predictable and never left…
Studies of Familiar Birds: An Interview With Carrie Green
byReading Carrie Green’s debut collection, Studies of Familiar Birds, you are not only entering a world of elegy, ekphrasis, family relationships, and an exploration…
Volatile Voices: A Review of Erik Fuhrer’s Not Human Enough for the Census
byTo read a book of poems about disaster in the middle of several simultaneous disasters is both an escape and a two-sided mirror. When…
The Rain Heron: an Interview with Robbie Arnott
byOur Interviews Editor Esteban Rodríguez sat down with Australian novelist Robbie Arnott to speak about his newest novel The Rain Heron, as well the…
A Letter, Written by Hand, from Quarantine
byWhich is the hand that felled the tree that pulped the wood that made the paper that is now beneath the hand of the…
Crossings: A Review of On This Side of the Desert
byFor anyone who grew up along the U.S.-Mexican border, life was no doubt unique. The border from California to Texas is by no means…
Burning Province: An Interview with Michael Prior
byOur Interviews Editor Esteban Rodríguez speaks with poet Michael Prior about his newest collection Burning Province (McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House, 2020). Clear, lyrical,…