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    Susan Kinsolving’s Dailies & Rushes: Poems

    When I was a child, Moving scared me; every time I located my life, it wandered away once more. These words from Susan Kinsolving’s poem “In Preparation”… Read more “Susan Kinsolving’s Dailies & Rushes: Poems”

    June 26, 2017June 26, 2017 by David Nilsen

    Sarah Gailey’s River of Teeth

    About a hundred years ago, the U.S. government very nearly gave the green light to a plan that would have brought hippopotamuses to the American South as… Read more “Sarah Gailey’s River of Teeth”

    June 21, 2017June 21, 2017 by David Nilsen

    My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier

    I was introduced to Daphne du Maurier the way most people were introduced to Daphne du Maurier: someone told me I absolutely had to read Rebecca, and so… Read more “My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier”

    June 19, 2017June 19, 2017 by David Nilsen

    A review of Beating the Graves by Tsitsi Ella Jaji

    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,… Read more “A review of Beating the Graves by Tsitsi Ella Jaji”

    May 3, 2017May 3, 2017 by David Nilsen

    National Poetry Month

    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… Read more “National Poetry Month”

    April 25, 2017 by David Nilsen

    A Review of Franki Elliot’s Piano Rats

    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… Read more “A Review of Franki Elliot’s Piano Rats”

    April 12, 2017 by David Nilsen

    A review of Emmy Perez’s With the River On Our Face

    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… Read more “A review of Emmy Perez’s With the River On Our Face”

    March 23, 2017 by 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”

    March 15, 2017 by David Nilsen

    Harry Potter and the Too Much Yelling

    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… Read more “Harry Potter and the Too Much Yelling”

    March 14, 2017 by David Nilsen

    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”

    March 8, 2017March 8, 2017 by David Nilsen

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