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Tag: Poetry
A Review of Gabrielle Brant Freeman’s When She Was Bad
In “The Audacious Canvas,” an early poem in Gabrielle Brant Freeman’s When She Was Bad, the poet observes the paintings of Lucian Freud and categorizes them as “anti-selfies.”… Read more “A Review of Gabrielle Brant Freeman’s When She Was Bad”
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”
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”
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”
A review of Rachel Bell’s Welcome to Your New Life with You Being Happy
I’ve never met Rachel Bell, and I’ve read only this one poetry chapbook of her writing, but from what I can tell, both the writer and the… Read more “A review of Rachel Bell’s Welcome to Your New Life with You Being Happy”
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 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”
A review of poetry zine Heavy Creatures by Milo Gallagher & Emma Post
Heavy Creatures, a new poetry zine from Milo Gallagher and Emma Post, takes popular mythology, horror tropes, and even cryptozoology legends and turns them on their heads,… Read more “A review of poetry zine Heavy Creatures by Milo Gallagher & Emma Post”
A Review of Wastelands by Julia Eff
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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