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...
by Jeneva Stone | Aug 26, 2020
My Afmericaby Artress Bethany WhiteTrio House Press, 2019 In her second collection, My Afmerica, Artress Bethany White grapples with the grief of generations of Black mothers in America. Her title reflects the reality that black skin, for many whites, is an unwelcome...
by Stephanie Burt | Aug 25, 2020
Insecurity Systemby Sara WainscottPersea Books, 2020 Ever read a crown of sonnets and wish you could read another one, and then more? Me neither, until the winningly, teasingly, loosely, expertly assembled array of fourteen-line items that comprise Sara Wainscott’s...
