SIFT, a new poetry collection by Christian Hawkey, reviewed by Esteban Rodríguez

The cover for Christian Hawkey’s first collection of poetry, The Book of Funnels (Verse Press, 2004), features a stuffed, anthropomorphized … 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

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 … More

“Chthonic Poetics”: Mike Corrao on Choi Seungja’s Action Books poetry collection PHONE BELLS KEEP RINGING FOR ME

In her new book, Phone Bells Keep Ringing for Me, Choi Seungja (translated by Won-Chung Kim & Cathy Park Hong) … More

Esteban Rodríguez on THE TRILOGY, an Action Books poetry collection by Bruno K. Öijer

Horace Engdahl, the former Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, once said that the United States was too isolated from … More

“Notes on Archi-text-ure”: Mike Corrao Reviews Candice Wuehle’s second poetry collection DEATH INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX from Action Books

Candice Wuehle’s newest book, Death Industrial Complex, is a collection of ekphrastic poems made in conversation with the works of … More

“The Monstrous Maternal in Ursula Andkjær Olsen’s THIRD-MILLENNIUM HEART”: A Review by Jayme Russell

Third-Millennium Heart is awash with red blood, black blood, a flood of names and namelessness. The poems pulse with RED. … More

Wild Grass on the Riverbank, by Hiromi Itō

(Be carried from your native land to foreign soil, where you will grow wild and propagate) Marking her return to … More

Rain of the Future, by Valerie Mejer

The poems in Valerie Mejer’s Rain of the Future are mesmerizing and irresistible, and the translations are first-rate. Mejer delivers … More

Kim Hyesoon’s SORROWTOOTHPASTE MIRRORCREAM: a conversational review

Candice Wuehle: Sorrowtoothpaste Mirrorcream is a mystic book for me in many ways. It uses incantatory language, possessed and possessable bodies, contains … More

Only Jesus Could Icefish in Summer, by Abraham Smith

The poems in Only Jesus Could Icefish in Summer surface and ripple the tongue before diving into the depths of … More