by David Tomas Martinez | Jul 31, 2017
Standoff by David Rivard Graywolf. 2016. David Rivard’s sixth collection of poetry, Standoff, released in 2016 by Graywolf Press totes an impressive number of glowing reviews and a heavy list of humble brag worthy laurels. Most recently it won the PEN/New England...
by Angela Palm | Jul 21, 2017
Not a Place on Any Map by Alexis Paige Vine Leaves Press. 2016. Organized as a series of forty flash essays anchored by their geographic location, Not a Place on Any Map by Brevity editor Alexis Paige charts a life that stutters and snags on trauma and...
by Natalie Mesnard | May 9, 2017
Pull Me Under By Kelly Luce FSG. 2016. Back when I taught English in Japan, the worst thing that happened to me was being denied entrance to a few restaurants. Kelly Luce, author of Pull Me Under (Farrar, Strauss & Giroux), wasn’t so lucky. In this New York...
by J.R. Solonche | Apr 30, 2017
Aldrich Press/Kelsay Books. 80 pp. 2017. The great English critic Matthew Arnold once said that he had no respect for the Romantic poets–you know, Shelley, Wordsworth, Byron–because they didn’t know enough. He would not level such a charge against...
by Jessica Swearingen | Apr 17, 2017
Monsters: A Love Story by Liz Kay G.P. Putnam’s Sons. 2016. 368 pp. Monsters: A Love Story is an exploration of loss and the ways we manipulate relationships to patch the tears in the fabric of our lives as we traverse the path of grief. The protagonist...
by Jenn Carter | Feb 11, 2017
System of Ghosts by Lindsay Tigue. University of Iowa Press. 2016. System of Ghosts is not an archive of spirits or dead things, but an analysis of the living. The reader is not a complacent audience waiting to be entertained, but an active traveler. Tigue’s voice is...
