Zinester Julia Eff‘s book-length poetry chapbook Wastelands looks at depression, kink, gender, and, of all things, truck driving. In addition to Eff’s poetry, the 80-page, tri-stapled volume features… Read more “A Review of Wastelands by Julia Eff”
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A Review of How To Set a Fire and Why by Jesse Ball
We’re just running down a fucking slope carrying these little flags, and one by one we get shot and we slump and our little flags are in… Read more “A Review of How To Set a Fire and Why by Jesse Ball”
A Review of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
When she wanted to forget the Castle, she thought of these things, but she did not expect joy. Hell was a place of remembering, each beautiful moment… Read more “A Review of Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi”
A Review of Fuchsia by Mahtem Shiferraw
Ethiopian American poet Mahtem Shiferraw won the 2015 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets for her collection Fuchsia, and the book has been published from University of… Read more “A Review of Fuchsia by Mahtem Shiferraw”
A Review of Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones
Stephen Graham Jones’s Mongrels is about werewolves. Except it isn’t. Not really. It’s about being poor, being outcast, being hungry, being scared, being desperate for identity, being broken, being… Read more “A Review of Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones”
A Review of Michelle Y. Burke’s Animal Purpose
In the opening poem of Michelle Y. Burke’s poetry collection Animal Purpose (Ohio University Press) she tells of a horse that breaks away from her grip as she leads… Read more “A Review of Michelle Y. Burke’s Animal Purpose”
A Review of Some Go Hungry by J. Patrick Redmond
Farming and God were two industries by which family fortune might flourish or fail in Fort Sackville. Fort Sackville, Indiana, the setting for J. Patrick Redmond’s novel Some… Read more “A Review of Some Go Hungry by J. Patrick Redmond”
A Review of Brenda Shaughnessy’s So Much Synth
Though CDs were the primary media in music sales by the time I was a teenager, I am old enough to have enjoyed the tail end of… Read more “A Review of Brenda Shaughnessy’s So Much Synth”
A Review of Angela Palm’s Riverine
Angela Palm grew up in the middle of nowhere, and only someone else who grew up in the middle of nowhere can really understand what that means.… Read more “A Review of Angela Palm’s Riverine”
A Review of Witch Hunt by Juliet Escoria
In “Flame War,” the poem that gives her debut poetry collection Witch Hunt its title, Juliet Escoria offers something of a statement of purpose for the book, or… Read more “A Review of Witch Hunt by Juliet Escoria”
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