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A Cacophony of Crowns: “cells, fully differentiated” by Kinsey Cantrell
Before venturing into Cantrell’s poetic narrative, the 9×7-inch poetic design of the collection presents symmetrical squared concrete poems encouraging disarray to the reading experience. Where one’s reading experience may take place traditionally across the page from left to right, the…
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The First Book: Sam Sussman
“It’s easy to think that when writing from life, the story is intuitive. That was not my experience. Life is not literature. I had to look carefully at what I had written and ask, “Am I writing this because it…
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What Resists the Burn Barrel: A Conversation with Mickie Kennedy
“Trust that the reader is intelligent enough to hop through time: moving back and forth between child and adult speakers. Freed of chronology, I immediately felt like “The Pact” would be a great opening for the book: intense, aggressive, grounding…
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Queer Joy, Intimacy, and Living in a Disabled Body: Rob Macaisa Colgate’s “Hardly Creatures”
I entered this book as one would enter an art gallery– clueless, curious, and slightly apprehensive. Very quickly though, the book held my hand and taught me how to read it. As in an art gallery, the book guides the…
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