Tag: Pittsburgh

  • CATALOG OF UNABASHED GRATITUDE, by Ross Gay

    CATALOG OF UNABASHED GRATITUDE, by Ross Gay

    There may be effusion in Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, but there’s definitely no mawkishness, no syrupy sentimentalism. Ferociously earnest and jubilant, Ross Gay’s third collection is not simply an ode to finding gratitude for the things we usually take for granted: it is a triumphant declaration of love for the world we live in. Here,…

  • BRAIN CAMP, by Charles Harper Webb

    BRAIN CAMP, by Charles Harper Webb

    “[H]eadlights lance the air,” Charles Harper Webb writes in “Questionable,” a poem about teenagers parking in the “night-woods.” This stunning image might serve as a metaphor for what Webb does in all of the poems in Brain Camp. Concerned primarily with the passage of time, the collection contains both deeply personal poems and critiques of…