The Not Yet Fallen World, new and selected poems by Stephen Dunn, reviewed by Jeanne Griggs

The Not Yet Fallen World: New and Selected Poems, by Stephen Dunn, offers poems from his nineteen volumes of poetry … More

“All Your Base Are Belong to Us”: Jacob Collins-Wilson on Roger Reeves’ second poetry collection Best Barbarian

Best Barbarian is Roger Reeves’ second book of poetry and it is a beast, as it wants to be. It … More

Shannon Nakai Reviews Equestrian Monuments, a poetry collection by Luis Chaves

Eleven years after the publication of Monumentos Ecuestres (Editorial Germinal, 2011) by Luis Chaves, one of Costa Rica’s most celebrated … More

Corey Qureshi on Alexandrine Ogundimu’s Novella Agitation

So many people are often on the verge of full collapse. A handful of or even just one missing check … More

Cinema, a novel by Samuel Kaye, reviewed by Dave Fitzgerald

Long before I started writing book reviews, I had a steady (unpaid) gig writing movie reviews (and still contribute occasional, … More

Refreshed Review: Pool Party Trap Loop, short stories by Ben Segal, republished by Schism Neuronics

Pool Party Trap Loop is a palindrome and a nightmare. I have read Ben Segal’s explanation of the title, which … More

Fugitive Assemblage, a novel by Jennifer Calkins, reviewed by Dave Karp

Jennifer Calkins’ Fugitive Assemblage is a prose-poetic narrative of a female narrator’s quest, always “on the wrong track,” to flee … More

Dream of Me as Water, a poetry collection by David Ly, reviewed by Margaryta Golovchenko

There is a disorienting quality to Dream of Me as Water, David Ly’s sophomore poetry collection. The ethereality of water … More

“Gonzo Dante”: Jesse Hilson on Garth Miró’s Novel The Vacation

Garth Miró’s novel The Vacation is rollicking, obscene fun with large veins of noxious social satire laced throughout. When a heroin-addicted, dissatisfied … More

Nympholepsy, a collaborative writing by Alyssa Morhardt-Goldstein & Lisa Marie Basile, reviewed by Dave Fitzgerald

I hope the following statement will come across in the spirit in which it’s intended (i.e. not too pervy) but … More

Erotic: New & Selected, a poetry collection by Alexis Rhone Fancher, reviewed by Deborah Bacharach

Dangerous. Transgressive. In Erotic: New & Selected, Alexis Rhone Fancher brings together two previous collections, How I Lost My Virginity … More

“Go for the Jugular”: James Braun Reviews Campfires of the Dead and the Living by Peter Christopher

Campfires of the Dead: If you know you know. Know the cult-like status this long-out-of-print book has achieved, with original … More

“Cowboy Koans”: Jesi Buell Reviews Bipolar Cowboy by Noah Cicero

“When you see a pronghorn antelope from your car, high upnorth in Nevada, by the Walker River Rez, I don’t … More

Thank You for Being, a poet’s memoir of home by Merle Bachman, reviewed by Marjorie Pryse

In her new book, Thank You for Being, Merle Bachman produces a hybrid work, a prose-poem of sorts. Although the … More

Maze Poems, a hybrid collection by David Harrison Horton, reviewed by Daniel Barbiero

Whether as poetry, personal revelation, or simply the transcription of the dynamic play of the uninhibited mind in flux, writing … More