Naming as Failure and Prayer
byI imagine the Adam of Genesis 1 stirring to consciousness, birthed by the words “let us make…,” then whisked into the garden whenever we…
Reviews
The Fables Keep Failing: A review of Jonathan Andrew Pérez’s Cartographer of Crumpled Maps: The Justice Elegies
byThe elegy and eulogy, both as poetic form and social practice, fascinate me. While the poetic form of elegy orients itself in celebration and…
All We Can Hope: A Review of The World I Leave You
byTo be descended from immigrants, drawn to a vocation of words, and writing from a spiritual lens is to find oneself in a niche…
The Fragile Human: a review of Tess Taylor’s Rift Zone and Last West, Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange
by“Whose fault // our fault” the poem “Three Dreams, 2018” opens. Tess Taylor’s fourth collection of poems, Rift Zone, tenders to her reader the…
The Painful, Joyful Hours: A Review of Bruce Snider’s Fruit
byBruce Snider’s new collection Fruit, winner of the Four Lakes Prize in Poetry, turns and turns again around the subject of being childless, of…
We Learn the Names: a Review of Kathryn Nuernberger’s Rue
byIn her essay “Upstream,” Mary Oliver offers her reader a scenario of a mind oriented towards (and in, and through) nature: “When the chesty,…
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,…
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…
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…