In the month following Donald Trump’s election to President of the United States, the Southern Poverty Law Center received over…
James R. Gapinski: “The Fourth Attic,” new fiction
We buy an old house in some up-and-coming Portland neighborhood (see: gentrification; also see: we are the problem, not…
“eraser,” new poetry by Tariq Shah
They erased me yesterday. After they took up the gavel, hammered the sound block, the wheels set into motion.…
Three Prose Poems by Grant Kittrell
There’s a Man with a Hemingway Inside His chair is shrinking beneath him on the coffee shop patio. I should…
Fiction: “Help Find Frankie Doolan” by Jack Kaulfus
1. Frankie switched her phone to silent and threw it on top of the travel duffel her father had given…
Meiko Ko on Gillian Cummings’ THE OWL WAS A BAKER’S DAUGHTER
The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter, by Gillian Cummings. Louisville, Colorado: University Press of Colorado, November 2018. 79 pages. $13.95,…
SHELF LIFE OF HAPPINESS, short stories by Virginia Pye, reviewed by Charles Duffie
Shelf Life of Happiness, by Virginia Pye. Winston-Salem, North Carolina: Press 53, October 2018. 169 pages. $17.95, paper. In “Best…
“Nowhere to Go from Here”: Rick Henry Chats with Micah Perks, Author of TRUE LOVE AND OTHER DREAMS OF MIRACULOUS ESCAPE
Micah Perks’ latest collection of threaded short stories, True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape, was published this past…
MUSEUM OF STONES, a novel by Lynn Lurie, reviewed by Christina Ghent
Museum of Stones, by Lynn Lurie. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania: Etruscan Press, May 2019. 112 pages. $16.00, paper. In the novel Museum…
MOUTH TRAP, a prose poetry collection by Rebbecca Brown, reviewed by Gabriel Welsch
Mouth Trap, by Rebbecca Brown. Arc Pair Press, September 2018. 62 pages. $16.00, paper. Rebbecca Brown’s collection of prose poems…
Casey Smith Reviews CLAIMING A BODY, a debut fiction collection by Amanda Marbais
Claiming a Body, by Amanda Marbais. Springfield, Missouri: Moon City Press, April 2019. 180 pages. $14.95, paper. Amanda Marbais’ most…
Three Princess Poems by Frances Donovan
What Snow White Swallows ginger snaps / a matchstick square pizza in the school cafeteria her body spreading in the…
