by James B. Nicola | Apr 2, 2019
Intimations of the Focal Plane by Dan Lewis Lulu.com, 2016 By the time I finished Dan Lewis’s collection Intimations of the Focal Plane many sections of my journal were scribbled over with citations of snippets from the tome. His words, blazed and...
by Kristina Marie Darling | Feb 27, 2019
In a co-authored essay, Priti Joshi and Susan Zieger observe that “Ephemerality might be described as the lived condition of an industrial modernity, founded on disposability, fluctuating value, and illusion.” It could also be said that the fleeting nature of so much...
by Andrew Merton | Oct 22, 2018
A Gathering of Larks by Abigail Carroll William B. Eerdman’s Publishing Company, 2017. In “Genesis (I),” the opening poem of Habitation of Wonder, the Vermont poet Abigail Carroll reimagines the Creation: We read the Word spoke forth creation, but I’m...
by Joe Sacksteder | Sep 13, 2018
Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash Coffee House Press, 2017. I’m overcome with dread when I begin a novel and realize that the author is invested in voice. Voice is presented as a such an integral aspect of the writing craft that we take for granted its...
by Anita Olivia Koester | May 18, 2018
Age of Glass by Anna Maria Hong Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2018 The sonnet is inexhaustible. Magnetic, mesmerizing, bewitching, nearly every poet is drawn to the form at some point in their career, whether they long to write the perfect sonnet, the...
by Anita Olivia Koester | Mar 26, 2018
Siren by Kateri Lanthier Signal Editions, 2017. “I sing these songs all through the dark, after everyone’s left.” The myth of the sirens has been used throughout history, to shame women or empower them, but always to warn men—women too can be dangerous....
