Will Stanier Reviews EXCLUSIONS, a Tupelo Press poetry collection by Noah Falck

Exclusions, by Noah Falck. North Adams, Massachusetts: Tupelo Press, August 2020. 70 pages. $17.95, paper. I suppose any discussion of … More

Moazzam Sheikh Review: THE SHAMAN OF TURTLE VALLEY, a Braddock Avenue Books novel by Clifford Garstang

The Shaman of Turtle Valley, by Clifford Garstang. Braddock, Pennsylvania: Braddock Avenue Books, May 2019. 396 pages. $18.95, paper. There’s … More

“Steve Von Till’s poems are lamentations—elegies for the loss of wildness, songs of hope, chants of spirit, and dreams … More

Opening Holes of Escape in the Tight Fabric[1] Dirt settles into mounds around our feet, brown hard-contrasting with the … More

MY DAUGHTER ARABELLE, SHE WAS the first to hear them. They woke her Thursday night before last, tapping on … More

BOTH OF MY PARENTS ARE dead. I live with Zeke, my older half-brother, and we take care of each other. … More

How to Behave, by L.M. Rainer. Claremont, California: Pelekinesis, July 2020. 220 pages. $16.00, paper. There’s an exchange at the … More

ARE YOU HUNGRY THE WAY I used to be? When I was a culinary student, I was always hungry … More

FOSTER WAS IN TOWN AGAIN. We took a cab together and had a late lunch in an empty little … More

LORNA SCANNED HER REFLECTION IN a full-length mirror, sucking in her stomach as she forced the button through the hole. … More

DEAR BECCA, I’VE WANTED TO write you for a long time. But on the last episode, GO FOR IT, … More

On the farm, our border collie lab killed small animals. I’d tell people they died from Joy. Once a … More