My birthday was last weekend, and we spent the evening sitting on the floor in the living room, drinking cheap wine, listening to 45s on the record… Read more “the day the lights went out”
Author: David Nilsen
A Review of Rachel Hadas’s Questions in the Vestibule
As you might be able to deduce from the title of Rachel Hadas’s 2016 poetry collection, Questions in the Vestibule is about the transitions, the in-between spaces, being… Read more “A Review of Rachel Hadas’s Questions in the Vestibule”
Harry Potter and the Too Much Yelling
Much later update: J.K. Rowling is a terrible person. We didn’t know that yet when this was originally written. Please take into account. Like almost every other… Read more “Harry Potter and the Too Much Yelling”
A review of My Aim Is True: Issue One
I picked up the first issue of My Aim Is True by Carrie Colpitts some time last year when I was at Quimby’s. Issue #1 is from 2011, so… Read more “A review of My Aim Is True: Issue One”
a deer stood by the side of the road
Ohio is balking at the border of winter and spring, reluctant to step over the line, though it’s all she’s been talking about for months. The neighbor’s… Read more “a deer stood by the side of the road”
A Review of Madhur Anand’s A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes
The unique amalgam of poetics and physical science present in Madhur Anand’s 2015 poetry collection A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes is present from its very first lines: The… Read more “A Review of Madhur Anand’s A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes”
A review of the zine Niceferatu
As soon as I saw this zine on the Pioneers Press site, I knew I had to have it. Even though it was only six pages, and… Read more “A review of the zine Niceferatu”
looking out a dirty old window
Last weekend, we drove north on US 127, a former thoroughfare that was eclipsed by I-75 when the interstate highway system half a century ago. 127 runs… Read more “looking out a dirty old window”
A Review of Bradford Tatum’s Only the Dead Know Burbank
Bradford Tatum’s debut novel is ninety percent of a great book. I’m not docking it because it lacks the magic to push it over the top, or… Read more “A Review of Bradford Tatum’s Only the Dead Know Burbank”
A review of C. Russell Price’s Tonight We Fuck the Trailer Park Out of Each Other
I spent the first seven years of my life in a trailer park. As kids, we moved in feral packs, and things that shouldn’t have happened happened… Read more “A review of C. Russell Price’s Tonight We Fuck the Trailer Park Out of Each Other”
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