Both Beauty and Horror: Water & Salt by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Tuffaha harnesses the legerdemain of lyric to link love and grief, anger and hope.
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Posts by: Jenna Lê
Beauty Undercut by the Possibility of Terror: Afterland by Mai Der Vang
Precariousness is an essential condition of life for the people who populate Vang’s poems, especially the Hmong refugees on whom the poet’s eye most lovingly lingers.
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Sunday Mornings at the Caffe Mediterraneum by Wendy Sloan
Jenna Le reviews Sunday Mornings at the Caffe Mediterraneum by Wendy Sloan today in Rumpus Poetry.
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A Woman Without a Country by Eavan Boland
Jenna Le reviews Eavan Boland’s A Woman Without a Country today in Rumpus Poetry.
...moreThe Last Book I Loved: The Handmaid’s Tale
My boyfriend sometimes says things like, “Back in high school, I was a theater geek.” What he means is that he attended acting camps during all his summer vacations, and he played juicy supporting roles like Horatio and Don Pedro in his high school’s Shakespeare productions. This niggles me. I think the phrase “theater geek” […]
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