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  • Savage Pageant, a hybrid poetry debut by Jessica Q. Stark, reviewed by Rita Hynes

    Savage Pageant, a hybrid poetry debut by Jessica Q. Stark, reviewed by Rita Hynes

    Jessica Q. Stark’s Savage Pageant is a cut and paste of celebrity biography, online comment threads, archival drawings, and Google maps. It is a collection of poems, memoir, trauma, and history. It is a scrapbook of American nostalgia. It is a circus. Savage Pageant is written in four acts and three intermissions, like show cards…

  • Tender Data, by Monica McClure

    Tender Data, by Monica McClure

    I am waiting for the L train and it is very late at night. I am standing on the yellow line, the one that makes some people feel like rule breakers and other people feel like stepping off. I look down at the tracks. Glitter. Sparkling confetti covers a dense layer of trash, gilding the…

  • “We Push Up Against Change and Resist It, Sometimes Violently So”: An Interview with Peter Grandbois

    “We Push Up Against Change and Resist It, Sometimes Violently So”: An Interview with Peter Grandbois

    I was very excited to interview author Peter Grandbois. Grandbois, who has authored six books, did not disappoint with his compelling and thought-provoking insights. His novel, The Gravedigger, was picked for the “Discover Great New Writers” program by Barnes & Noble. His hybrid memoir, The Arsenic Lobster, has also received high acclaim. More recently, Grandbois…