Tag: Cleveland State University Poetry Center

  • The day woke with a (*): Sheila McMullin’s daughterrarium

    The day woke with a (*): Sheila McMullin’s daughterrarium

    Sheila McMullin’s collection daughterrarium immediately piques the reader’s interest with a perfectly placed asterisk. The strange natural imagery and experimental form in “Tapering” introduce both mystery and play, two ideas that stream throughout the collection. My sister also said * we think because of our mother; (I) feared * and (I) held (I) Interrupted *: Many…

  • THE BEES MAKE MONEY IN THE LION by Lo Kwa Mei-en

    THE BEES MAKE MONEY IN THE LION by Lo Kwa Mei-en

    …In this book, the bees make money in the lion’s fontanel, licked away by the heroin tacky sheets of zero Next chapter in, we girls spit it all out. The end is gold and harm mercurial, and the sea, ashine withmilk and honey, and the sky, amen. In these poems, Lo Kwa Mei-en constructs an…

  • Review: Annalia Luna on Lily Hoang’s A Bestiary

    Review: Annalia Luna on Lily Hoang’s A Bestiary

    When it comes to writing, Asian women in America are given two choices. The first, of course, is the one where her exoticism oozes from her skin like bark slathered in sap, where she is delicate like dishes that only see food during holidays. She is an Asian woman with Asian parents who adore her…