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Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews A Holiday in Hell: Lauren Tivey’s Moroccan Holiday Patrick ArmstrongNovember 27, 2020 If you’re going to Hell, bring a good guide.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Documenting Existence: Deed by Justin Wymer Keegan LesterNovember 20, 2020 Wymer is grappling with survival, with the cost of the duplicity of identity.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Still Wouldst Thou Sing: Nightingale by Paisley Rekdal Gregory EmilioNovember 13, 2020 Figures from antiquity—those masks of learned, privileged poets—are rendered utterly contemporary, down to earth.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Wistful Intimacies: Homie by Danez Smith Mandana ChaffaNovember 6, 2020 Could I be one of Smith’s homies? I would like to be.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews What We Need: Juan Felipe Herrera, Maw Shein Win, and John Freeman Barbara BermanOctober 30, 2020 Barbara Berman reviews Every Day We Get More Illegal, Storage Unit for the Spirit House, and The Park.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Any Moment Is a Door: Nadia Colburn’s The High Shelf Kasey JuedsOctober 23, 2020 Again, the red door stands open, allowing the world to enter.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews Beloved Names and Incantatory Powers: heidi andrea restrepo rhodes’s The Inheritance of Haunting e. m. franceschiniOctober 16, 2020 And so it is an exorcism, yes, but also a song.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews The Sound of Beginning: Birthright by George Abraham J. DavidOctober 9, 2020 These poems present a challenge to the typically imposed strictures of ownership, narrative, and solution.Read
Read Features & Reviews Poetry Reviews The World Is on Fire: Living Weapon by Rowan Ricardo Phillips Andre BagooOctober 2, 2020 A democratic art, the poet says, will take us through. Come November, vote.Read