The African Poetry Book Series published each year by the University of Nebraska Press is always worth looking forward to. Having thoroughly enjoyed Mahtem Shiferraw’s Fuchsia last summer, I picked up […]
I wouldn’t have the slightest clue who I am if it weren’t for poetry. I wrote my first poetry in sixth grade, started plagiarizing my sister’s better poetry in seventh […]
On one of my many trips to Quimby’s bookstore in Chicago (my favorite bookshop in the world), I took a chance on Franki Elliot’s Piano Rats, a poetry collection published by […]
Emmy Pérez’s collection With the River on Our Face is intimately tied to the territory of its origin. Taking as its muse the land, wildlife, and people in and around El […]
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 stuck in the […]
Like almost every other reader on the planet, I love J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series. I started reading them in 2001, blazed through the first four books in the series […]
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 rejection of reds, […]
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 because Tatum’s vision […]
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 behind shabby mobile […]
“Yell. Jump. Play. Out-run those sons-of-bitches. They’ll never live the way you live. Go do it.” – from Ray Bradbury’s Zen in the Art of Writing: Essay on Creativity I recently […]
