by Shanta Lee Gander | Apr 5, 2022
You Don’t Have to Be EverythingDiana Whitney, ed.Workman Publishing, 2021. An edgy manifesto for non-binary, trans, or cis-gendered girls in the form of a poetry anthology that cheers all kinds of girls to live without apology will hit the stands with a second reprint...
by Carol Strong | Mar 26, 2022
Damaged Heritage: The Elaine Race Massacre and A Story of ReconciliationBy J. Chester JohnsonPegasus Books/Simon Schuster, 2020. J. Chester Johnson’s book, Damaged Heritage: The Elaine Race Massacre and a Story of Reconciliation, brings fresh air and a fresh...
by Aria Ligi | Feb 4, 2022
Maze by Matt Bialer.Finishing Line Press, 2021. Matt Bialer’s Maze is a wonderfully composed epic in narrative prose to his late wife, to society, and memory, done in rhapsodic meter, intertwining a chorale that echoes throughout from Bosnia, to his wife’s...
by Sarah Audsley | Jan 28, 2022
FABLESQUE by Anna Maria Hong Tupelo Press, 2020. Anna Maria Hong’s Fablesque collection (Tupelo Press 2020) is an inventive bestiary with an insistent feminist examination on what it means “to be a person instead of a very competent erasure.” Writing within the...
by Virginia Konchan | Nov 12, 2021
The Death Spiral by Sarah GiragosianBlack Lawrence Press, 2020. “To rend: this is what I want,” says the intrepid and metamorphic speaker of The Death Spiral, from the poem “Notes Toward an Apology” wherein the speaker slices a tomato open with her fingernail,...
by Kate Hanson Foster | Jul 30, 2021
That Was Now, This Is Then Vijay Sheshadri Graywolf, 2020. “We are obsessed with ourselves,” wrote theoretical physicist, Carlo Rovelli in his book, Reality Is Not What It Seems. “We study our history, our psychology, our gods. Much of our knowledge revolves around...
