I WILL NOT NAME IT EXCEPT TO SAY by Lee Sharkey: A Poetry Review by Robert Dunsdon

Young poets, hotheads newly converted and ablaze with ideas, crane their necks and clear their throats, eager for their song … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

“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 … More

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 … More

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 … More

AND SO WAX WAS MADE & ALSO HONEY, a poetry collection by Amy Beeder, reviewed by David Epstein

When Polish-born Joseph Conrad was asked why he wrote in English, he said “Because Flaubert was already writing in French.” … More

IN THE ANTARCTIC CIRCLE, prose poems by Dennis James Sweeney, reviewed by Marin Killen

Dennis James Sweeney’s writing in In the Antarctic Circle (described as “hybrid narrative prose poems” but Autumn House Press) makes … More

Saturday Morning Chapbook: Chase Burke’s LECTURE (Paper Nautilus) reviewed by Nick Almeida

Chase Burke’s stunning chapbook Lecture (Paper Nautilus Press) is filled with tumbledown geniuses. Armor is a recurrent image, and penmanship … More

“What’s Missing?”: Benjamin Kinney on the Quest for Identity in Shawn Rubenfeld’s THE EGGPLANT CURSE AND THE WARP ZONE

Joshua Schulman is a modern-day Pac-Man: powering his way through a path he cannot predict, all while being haunted by … More

NEWER TESTAMENTS, a novel by Philip Brunetti, reviewed by Nora E. Webb

Beautiful, haunting, and decidedly subversive, Newer Testaments invites us to explore the metaphysical, the hypothetical, and the hallucinatory. It follows … More