by Sean Prentiss | Mar 10, 2015
The Dead Wrester Elegies by W. Todd Kaneko Curbside Splendor Press, 2014, 202 pp. The word kayfabe is a pro wrestling term that means “The suspension of disbelief used to manufacture feuds, angles and gimmicks surrounding a professional wrestling match” or “The...
by Dawn Davies | Feb 25, 2015
Shape of the Sky, Shelagh Connor Shapiro Wind Ridge Books of Vermont, 2014 As an unapologetic reader of everything, I find myself categorizing new things I read with other things I have read, as if placing books and stories and poems in folders in my mind will help me...
by Marcus Pactor | Feb 20, 2015
Huck Finn’s tall shadow tints every American novel. Some writers ignore it as best they can. Others offer obeisance when called upon. But few writers will engage the work directly. That is why readers who have loved Huck Finn at any age will want to check out Norman...
by David Weinstock | Feb 10, 2015
The River Won’t Hold You, Karin Gottshall The Ohio State University Press/The Journal Award in Poetry. 2014. 78 pp. Every poet, as a job requirement, needs at least a tolerance for solitude. Better would be a positive taste for it, or, better still, as you’ll see in...
by Emily Borgmann | Jan 26, 2015
Original Bodies, Doug Ramspeck Southern Indiana Review Press. 2014. 60pp. Doug Ramspeck’s fifth collection of poetry is the inaugural winner of The Michael Waters Poetry Prize, awarded by Southern Indiana Review. The collection is, from the first strum, a meditation...
by Jodie Vinson | Nov 22, 2014
The Interior Circuit Francisco Goldman Grove Atlantic, July 2014 Sidewalks Valeria Luiselli Coffee House Press, May 2014 Reading Francisco Goldman’s The Interior Circuit and Valeria Luiselli’s Sidewalks is like driving down the same highway twice, but in...
