by Anne Graue | Sep 24, 2020
The Clearingby Allison AdairMilkweed Editions, 2020 The opening title poem of Allison Adair’s collection The Clearing transforms a recognizable fairy tale into a grim story of a man who may be a “prince or woodcutter or brother, now musty with beard,” all...
by Carlene Kucharczyk | Sep 19, 2020
Delugeby Leila ChattiCopper Canyon Press, 2020 In this stunning debut collection of poetry, Leila Chatti, a citizen of both the United States and Tunisia, brings together a variety of topics that, historically, have not oft been talked about—not in public and not in...
by Alexandra Mayer | Sep 13, 2020
Parturitionby Heather TreselerSouthword Editions, 2020 Heather Treseler’s new chapbook Parturition, named after the technical term for childbirth, is punctuated with medical vocabulary. Anhedonia, the inability to feel pleasure. Caul, a baby born with a piece of...
by Jodie Vinson | Sep 8, 2020
Summer Solsticeby Nina MacLaughlinBlack Sparrow Press, 2020 “What’s the start of summer for you, the signal that it’s here?” Nina MacLaughlin asks in her book-length essay Summer Solstice, published by Black Sparrow Press. And with that invitation the reader’s...
by S.T. Brant | Sep 1, 2020
The Fire Eaterby Jose Hernandez DiazTexas A&M University Press, 2020 Surrealism is a flight against Oblivion. Taking to the winds of Memory on the magical wings of the supra-real. Reality through an extraordinary idea of Reality. What creates memory and what...
by Rachel Aydt | Aug 30, 2020
Miracles Come on Mondaysby Penelope CrayPleiades Press, 2020 Please lock me in the quiet room so I can once again concentrate and give Penelope Cray the attention she exacts from each story of her debut collection, “Miracles Come on Mondays,” published by Pleiades...
