“the sun I can afford”: Zachary Kinsella on Protest and Compromise in that’s what you get by Sheila Maldonado

that’s what you get, Sheila Maldonado’s second full-length collection, offers rich, emotional weight with a kind of ease that is … More

Alexander Boldizar’s THE UGLY

Even courageous readers have likely never encountered a character with the overwhelming physical mass and intellectual presence of (northern) Siberian … More

LUNCH PORTRAITS by Debora Kuan

In Debora Kuan’s Lunch Portraits, the everyday is silly, surreal, and biting. There is an abundant playfulness, both of language … More

CONFIDENCE, by Seth Landman

Confidence is divided into three roughly equal sections, each of which comprises a single long poem, each long poem comprising … More

THE WORD KINGDOM IN THE WORD KINGDOM, by Noah Eli Gordon

Noah Eli Gordon’s The Word Kingdom in the Word Kingdom is a text that takes up the struggle of the … More

I’m Your Huckleberry, by Erika Jo Brown

My wife wrote a book. A good book. A good book of love poems. Some of them, the poems, aren’t … More

The Story of How All Animals Are Equal & Other Tales, by Matt Runkle

The title of Matt Runkle’s forthcoming short story collection, The Story of How All Animals Are Equal & Other Tales, … More