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    Happy Birthday, Monica Vitti

    Monica Vitti, star of several of Michelangelo Antonioni’s best films, was born on this day in 1931. She died February 2, 2022. She would have been 94… Read more “Happy Birthday, Monica Vitti”

    November 3, 2025November 3, 2025 by David Nilsen

    Reeling Through Life: An Interview with Tara Ison

    I conducted this interview with novelist and screenwriter Tara Ison almost a decade ago for a now defunct site after the publication of her 2015 book Reeling… Read more “Reeling Through Life: An Interview with Tara Ison”

    July 8, 2025July 8, 2025 by David Nilsen

    So Much Bastard Beauty: Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón

    This review was original published in Open Letter Monthly in 2015. Before she moved to my dead-end town to be with me, my wife asked me how… Read more “So Much Bastard Beauty: Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón”

    May 7, 2025May 7, 2025 by David Nilsen

    A Review of Post-Human by Nate Pritts

    This review originally appeared on The Collagist. We’ve had it wrong. Life isn’t accumulation. Every day is a slow destruction. Post Human by Nate Pritts (A-Minor Press,… Read more “A Review of Post-Human by Nate Pritts”

    July 20, 2024May 28, 2025 by David Nilsen

    A Review of Spine by Carolyn Guinzio

    This review originally appeared on The Collagist. Carolyn Guinzio’s Spine ponders the traces of our existence we leave outside ourselves, and the traces broader existence leaves behind… Read more “A Review of Spine by Carolyn Guinzio”

    July 20, 2024May 28, 2025 by David Nilsen

    A Review of Portrait of the Future with Trapdoor by Elizabeth Onusco

    This review originally appeared on The Collagist. Elizabeth Onusko’s Portrait of the Future with Trapdoor is a unique and lush exploration of grief, incarnation, infertility, and, ultimately,… Read more “A Review of Portrait of the Future with Trapdoor by Elizabeth Onusco”

    July 20, 2024May 28, 2025 by David Nilsen

    A Review of Güera by Rebecca Gaydos

    This review originally appeared on The Collagist. Güera is a Mexican Spanish slang word for a white woman or a women with light-colored hair (güero for the… Read more “A Review of Güera by Rebecca Gaydos”

    July 20, 2024May 28, 2025 by David Nilsen

    A Review of Harborless by Cindy Hunter Morgan

    This review originally appeared on The Collagist. In Harborless, Cindy Hunter Morgan’s full-length poetry debut, the dramas of Great Lakes shipping disasters are brought into sharp sensory… Read more “A Review of Harborless by Cindy Hunter Morgan”

    July 20, 2024May 28, 2025 by David Nilsen

    A Review of Rail by Kai Carlson-Wee

    This review was originally published in The Collagist.                                                What home are we leaving? What distances blur the electric fence? What hundred low thundering wheels of darkness are… Read more “A Review of Rail by Kai Carlson-Wee”

    July 20, 2024May 28, 2025 by David Nilsen

    A Review of Yearling by Lo Kwa Mei-en

    This review was originally published in The Collagist. Yearling explores the chaos and staccato emotion of young adulthood with elemental language and imagery—fire, water, earth, wind, and… Read more “A Review of Yearling by Lo Kwa Mei-en”

    July 20, 2024July 20, 2024 by David Nilsen

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