IT HAPPENED SLOWLY AT FIRST. Slits tracing shoulder blades down a pale canvas back, blood trickling like paint from…
“Resonance Is a Very Personal Thing”: Hillary Leftwich Chats with Teague von Bohlen, author of the flash fiction collection FLATLAND
Teague von Bohlen is a Midwestern man at heart, and his latest collection, Flatland, represents, both verbally as well as…
Noreen Hernandez on Tina May Hall’s debut novel THE SNOW COLLECTORS from Dzanc Books
The Snow Collectors, by Tina May Hall. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Dzanc Books, February 2020. 224 pages. $16.95, paper. Tina May…
“Ten Songs, the Sound of Ambient Noise, and the Clanking of Chains”: A Playlist for Andrew Rihn’s REVELATION: AN APOCALYPSE IN FIFTY-EIGHT FIGHTS
My book Revelation: An Apocalypse in Fifty-Eight Fights has the honor of being the first book released through Press 53’s…
Cassandra Luca Reviews Jonathan Blum’s short story collection THE USUAL UNCERTAINTIES: “A richly detailed, mixed (and eyebrow-furrowing) bag”
The Usual Uncertainties, by Jonathan Blum. Rescue Press, November 2019. 344 pages. $18.00, paper. Jonathan Blum’s short story collection, The…
“The Academic Agenda,” a satirical story by Darryl Lorenzo Wellington for #NoMorePresidents
How much did you learn in school? There are hours when the subjectivity of days and nights overwhelms you. To…
Haunted Passages Fiction by Alexa T. Dodd: “His or Yours”
When you come home from work, the living room is littered with a grease-tattooed pizza box and dented cans…
What We’re Reading: January 2020
We editors love reading at HFR—and talking books, writing, and publishing around the clock—so we decided to catalog our selections every…
THE MIRACLES, the third poetry collection by Amy Lemmon, reviewed by Leonard A. Temme
The Miracles, by Amy Lemmon. C&R Press, March 2019. 82 pages. $16.00, paper. Amy Lemmon’s new book of poems, The…
YOU MIGHT FORGET THE SKY WAS EVER BLUE, short stories by Michael Chin, reviewed by Emily Webber
You Might Forget the Sky Was Ever Blue, by Michael Chin. Duck Lake Books, September 2019. 136 pages. $16.99, paper.…
Alice Hall: “O SONG BOX,” a visual poem hybrid
Alice Hall is a poet and educator currently pursuing her PhD in the Poetics Program at the University…
Lauren Ireland: Two Poem Rituals
Ritual for Becoming Unborn Become a secret that turns itself inside out become the remotest part of yourself become…
