Young poets, hotheads newly converted and ablaze with ideas, crane their necks and clear their throats, eager for their song…
AND THEN THE GRAY HEAVEN, a novel by RE Katz, reviewed by Lillian Barfield
And Then the Gray Heaven by RE Katz centers around Jules, a queer young adult who has emerged from foster…
A Review of Alice Kaltman’s DAWG TOWNE by Alexandra Pennington
Alice Kaltman’s novel Dawg Towne features interchangeable narrative perspectives among six members of the tiny suburban Towne who each offer…
A Story from The Future: Leland Cheuk’s “Frontliners”
I SHUDDERED AFTER REBECCA SAID she’d ordered takeout and toilet paper again. I was getting nowhere with my intramarital campaign…
“I want a new car, I told you.” a Side A prose poem by Hannah Grieco
I want a new car, I told you. but what I want is to smash the windows of our minivan,…
QUEENZENGLISH.MP3, a poetry | philosophy | performativity anthology edited by Kyoo Lee, reviewed by Ben Tripp
Most publishers now are more risk-averse than ever. And this while also, globally, we are led to believe that English…
A THOUSAND CURVES, a Red Mountain Editor’s Choice Award-winning poetry collection by Paul Nemser, reviewed by Noreen Hernandez
Paul Nemser’s childhood connection to poetry began in Portland, Oregon, where he passed the time reading poems in the storage…
“A Book Is a Different Kind of Riddle Altogether”: Evan Isoline in Conversation with Vi Khi Nao about PHILOSOPHY OF THE SKY
PHILOSOPHY OF THE SKY is Evan Isoline’s debut full-length book and was published by 11:11 Press on May 18, 2021.…
Side A Poem: “Indigo Froth” by Benjamin Niespodziany
Peter Valente: “Notes on John Wieners’ ‘A Poem for Painters'” (SELECTED POEMS 1958-1984), written after reading Bill Berkson’s SUDDEN ADDRESS (Cuneiform Press, 2010)
In “A Poem for Painters,” John Wieners writes: Paul Klee scratched for seven yearson smoked glass, to develophis line, LaVigne…
Becca Yenser on Reading Brian Phillip Whalen’s SEMIOTIC LOVE [STORIES]
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” So writes Joan Didion in her book, The White Album. That statement…
“the company of everything”: Sarah D’Stair Reviews CEMETERY INK by Mihaela Moscaliuc
Elemental. That’s how this book feels. Each new verse, sound, phrase, and image seems foundational, building a life, then living…
Side A Video Poem: Catherine Heard & Gary Barwin’s THE MOST CHARMING CREATURES
Music was created by Barwin using Max/MSP programming language abstracting the recording of the spoken text into a haunting soundworld…
Justin Sun Reviews prepoems in postpanish and other poems by Jorgenrique Adoum, translated by Katherine M. Hedeen & Victor Rodríguez Núñez
On the home page of jorgenriqueadoum.com, there is a rotating carousel of pictures. Jorgenrique Adoum lighting a cigar, Jorgenrique Adoum…
NEMEROV’S DOOR, an essay collection by Robert Wrigley, reviewed by Francesca Moroney
I’ve come to contemporary poetry late in my life. Just a few years shy of half a decade, I began…
