The Rich Life of Objects in Elliott Colla and Ganzeer’s “We Are All Things”
byWe Are All Things, a graphic chapbook written by Elliott Colla and illustrated and designed by Ganzeer, luxuriates in the inner life of objects,…
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The Vastness and Reserve of ‘Gbenga Adeoba’s Exodus
by‘Gbenga Adeoba’s remarkable first collection Exodus attends to the experience of those who have been forced to migrate from their homes by wars, disasters,…
Between The Fragments
byThe title of Jenny Offill’s new novel Weather is—like this small, strange, haunting book itself—perfect in its concision: a word that captures both the…
Sacred Geography
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Writing about a certain region can be tricky. On the one hand, it’s an opportunity to reveal a landscape and people that others…
Wonder and Truth
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Pricking by Jessica Cuello. Tiger Bark Press, 2016. 73 pages. $16.95. I. In Jessica Cuello’s first two full-length collections of poetry, the historical…
Crossroads of Old
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Our Interview Editor Esteban Rodríguez talks with poet Anne Babson about the power of faith and poetry, honest depictions of American landscapes, and…
Inhabited By Ghosts
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The pregnant female body is “a body-stage,” writes Jessica Q. Stark in her poetic debut Savage Pageant, where she deftly moves from the…
Radical Tenderness and Illness as Resistance in Amy Berkowitz’s Tender Points
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] CW: Child abuse and SA [perfectpullquote align=”full” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]“I believe that unless we treat each other with tenderness and…
From Wound to Wonder
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Exit Pastoral by Aidan Forster. YesYes Books, 2019. 32 pages. $12. Bruce Snider, writing on his experience as a queer poet, recounts how…
Sound, Collage, and Hybridity as Lyric
by[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] “This day has a quietness / that sticks” read the first two lines of the poem “Ohio” in Kathryn Cowles’s second collection of…