Trances of the Blast, by Mary Ruefle

Remember sex in the early days—how you’d become obsessed with particulars and risk missing the big picture? You’d think overmuch … More

ECODEVIANCE, by CAConrad

CAConrad’s latest book serves as a how-to guide—through (Soma)tic rituals, we see the prompt and the resulting poems, pulling the … More

Anthony McCann’s Thing Music is a conversation between you and I. Thing Music is a texture, a place to hold … More

There is a disorienting, though familiar, quality to Talkativeness, the new collection of poems by Michael Earl Craig. I’m ashamed … More

I came of age during the heyday of the compact disc, and one of the highlights of that era was … More

When I was an undergraduate, I took an Introduction to Creative Writing class with Brian Henry. I took this class … More

Soul in Space, Noelle Kocot’s sixth full-length collection of poetry, calls us to the world and the world to us. … More

Reading Dara Wier’s You Good Thing, I felt “physically as if the top of my head were taken off,” not … More

The poems in Dorothea Lasky’s Thunderbird have two faces: “One side [is] normal,” but “[t]he other side [is] cut into, … More