Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Bringing to Light: A Gathering and Tethering of Memory in Darla Himeles’s Cleave Jenny WongOctober 22, 2021 Poems echo, rebound, and speak to one another.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Bright Buoy, Dark Sea: Kelli Russell Agodon’s Dialogues with Rising Tides Lauren K. CarlsonOctober 15, 2021 Like a buoy, Agodon’s poems rise above and go below the surface.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Projective Wonder: Imagine Us, the Swarm by Muriel Leung Julie Marie WadeOctober 8, 2021 The individual and the crowd might prove as false a binary as anything else, even that [perforated] line sketched between poetry and prose.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Birth Stories: Kendra DeColo’s I Am Not Trying to Hide My Hungers from the World Lynne FeeleyOctober 1, 2021 The speaker is both ruthlessly in her body and simultaneously elsewhere.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Of Language and Lineage: Carlina Duan’s Alien Miss Alice LiangSeptember 24, 2021 All the while, the sound of the poetry behind the telling is sharp, rhythmic, and controlled.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews A Multi-Modal Study of Exquisite Blackness: Krista Franklin’s Too Much Midnight Tatiana Johnson-BoriaSeptember 17, 2021 In Franklin’s telling, we are not just born, but fervent in our existence.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Like Clockwork, Like Memory: There Is Still Singing in the Afterlife by JinJin Xu Michelle XuSeptember 10, 2021 How to live with a love so intense, a pressure so ripe?Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Lightning Rods and Line Breaks: The Malevolent Volume by Justin Phillip Reed Willie Lee Kinard IIISeptember 3, 2021 Frighteningly detailed, this poet knows horror well.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews There Are No Cheap Seats in Lauren Shapiro’s Arena Julie Marie WadeAugust 27, 2021 Resonance is a given. You can’t help but hear. In Lauren Shapiro’s Arena, every seat is the best seat in the house.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Both Microscope and Telescope: The Absurd Man by Major Jackson Mandana ChaffaAugust 20, 2021 The Absurd Man is confident and daring with a muscular specificity of language that is both deeply resonant for a wide audience and also singular to the poet.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Inner Conversations Projected on a Surface: Bruno K. Öijer’s The Trilogy Naheed PatelAugust 13, 2021 A family’s grief traps generations in a search for insight.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews To Set Asunder: The Separation and Synthesis of Tiana Nobile’s Cleave Stacey BalkunJune 18, 2021 A word becomes a reckoning, a reconciling of contradiction.Read