Author: Heavy Feather
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Zuri Etoshia Anderson on Dollhouse Masquerade, a poetry collection by Samuel E. Cole
I contemplated about how to open up my review about Dollhouse Masquerade, a collection of poetry by Samuel E. Cole. “Man, what witty or strong hook can I think up to have people read this book?” I thought to myself for at least an hour. But then I realized: I can’t describe it as one…
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“#MeToo All Over Again”: Gay Degani Interviews Jacqueline Doyle, Author of The Missing Girl
Every story in this short collection, The Missing Girl (Black Lawrence Press, 2017), is strong, evocative, and terrifying. Jacqueline Doyle gives us a prism: eight stories with eight different approaches on the continuing issue of misappropriate, dangerous, and often deadly behavior toward women. Jacqueline Doyle’s flash collection The Missing Girl won the Black River Chapbook Competition at Black…
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Two Poems by Julia Cohen
Passover Lullaby for Elijah, April 19 2019 / Elegy for Chabad of Poway SynagogueApril 27 2019 A sinkhole of humansA marquee of humansA nomad of humansA lake of humansA smuggle of humansA kibbutz of humansA pollen of humansA grenade of humansA hammock of humansA Shirley Temple of humansA bloviation of humansAn occupation of humansA foliage…
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The Book of the Last Word, a novel by Jesi Bender, reviewed by Patrick Parks
In the prologue to Jesi Bender’s intense and beautifully crafted first novel, The Book of the Last Word, we hear from that most omniscient of narrators, who tells us, “In the beginning, there was nothing but me. In the end, it will be the same.” This paraphrasing from Genesis is a tip-off that behind the…
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Lyric Essay for Bad Survivalist: “Who Killed the Nyan Cat?” by Jill M. Talbot
I stare at the barbed wire at the top of the fence. All I want to do is to go home. Home is more of a concept than a place. I wonder who invented fences that kill. Nazis? They say that the best way to survive real tragedy is to do so as if within…
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Bad Survivalist Poetry: “The world in which I open up google earth and my dead mother is feeding the horses.” by Megan Merchant
I imagined it differently. The paddock flooded.The donkey and sheep a fence over, cuddledunder the mare. I want to pull up and showher my new haircut so she can make that face,then make the word okay sound like a derailment.I want to tell her about the fire and how ourneighbor scrambled the yard gathering her…
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Hannah Jackson Reviews Wendy J. Fox’s latest novel If the Ice Had Held
In Wendy J. Fox’s If the Ice Had Held, Melanie faces a setback when the software company she works for begins downsizing. At the same time, she is also trying to overcome her impulse to sleep with married men, reflecting on her childhood and realizing where her avoidance of commitment stems from. While the novel…
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Temper CA, a novella by Paul Skenazy, reviewed by Hayley Neiling
With the death of her grandfather, Joy Temper returns to the small mining town of Temper, CA. Temper is the town where she spent her childhood in the 1970s, and it is the town that her family founded during the days of the California gold rush and has gained local fame for doing so. In…
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“Out Goes the Blot,” new poetry for Bad Survivalist by David Kruger
I sit at the free clinic like a tailor stitchinga hidden nest in a jacket. After the hat wagafter the chromatichandkerchief I pukeas rainbowafter the scruff of white under-fuzzto rabbit a glove,the doves get out. I imagine my veins as birds in the rafters.I imagine my veins as after-magic,akimbo, still sparkling but unattended. Somewhere a…
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