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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…
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.”…
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…
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…
“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…
Side A Poem: “A Power or Ability of the Kind Possessed by Superheroes” by Kathleen Rooney
Anton Pooles: Three Poems for Haunted Passages
He Did Not Listen Now his bones are neatly displayedon a table like a museum piece. “They shine like hard…
Two Flash Fictions from The Future by Soramimi Hanarejima
Renewed Sensitivity YOUR DISTRUST OF PEOPLE IS verging on paranoia, and although I remain exempt from your unfounded scrutiny, talking…
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…
“Skullface” by Rick Claypool: A Novel Excerpt for The Future
1. A mutant wakes up screaming alone under harsh beams of laboratory light. The humanlike thing cries and clings to…
Flavor Town USA: “Boxed Mac and Cheese,” a poem by Mercury-Marvin Sunderland
today i madeboxed mac and cheese on the stovenot the oven but it was still edibleand the best that i…
Frederick Arias: Opera kitsch for RITUALS PERFORMED IN THE ABSENCE OF GANYMEDE by Mike Corrao
Rituals Performed in the Absence of Ganymede emphasizes the ludological role of abstract anatomies and how they project different erotic…
Esteban Rodríguez Reviews EDINBURGH NOTEBOOK, an Action Books poetry collection by Valerie Mejer Caso
There is no telling what anyone’s reaction to death will be, but for many putting pen to paper helps process…
Maria Judnick Reviews CALL IT HORSES, a Dzanc Books epistolary road novel by Jessie van Eerden
“I write you about the dead. I write you to stay alive and, after all this time, I write you,…
