All the Secrets of the World, by Steve Almond. Zando Projects, 416 ppl, $28.
For twenty years, Steve Almond has enjoyed a widely-lauded career as a writer of short … Read the rest
Marginalia: Ron Tanner on Steve Almond
No Longer the Bystander
By Esteban Rodríguez
Why the Assembly Disbanded, by Roberto Tejada. Fordham University Press, 88 pp., $16.95.
instrumentation for distributed empathy monetization, by William Lessard. Kernpunkt Press, 40 pp.,
… Read the rest Four Takes: Devon Walker-Figueroa’s PHILOMATH
"In the hands of Walker-Figueroa ... enjambment is not just a craft technique—hers is an existential enjambment."
Mythmaking in Three Debuts
By Laura Villareal
Swallowed Light, by Michael Wasson. Copper Canyon Press, 96 pp., $17.
Philomath, by Devin Walker-Figueroa. Milkweed Editions, 104 pp., $16.
Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking,
… Read the rest One Vast Shadow: The Poetry of (Self)Perspective
Split the Lark: Shara Lessley on Contemporary Poetry
Brocken Spectre, by Jacques Rancourt. Alice James Books, 100 pp., $18.95.
West Portal, by Benjamin Gucciardi. Unviersity of Utah Press, 64
… Read the rest This Long Winding Line: A Poetry Retrospective
"Kyrie’s sonnets aren’t only in conversation with historical events ... but with the history of verse itself."
Survival Songs
By David Roderick
Oh You Robot Saints!, by Rebecca Morgan Frank. Carnegie Mellon University Press, 96 pp., $15.95.
Year of the Dog, by Deborah Paredez. BOA Editions, 122
… Read the rest Marginalia: Chet’la Sebree, Andrew Ciotola, Ron Tanner, G.C. Waldrep
The Sum of Trifles, by Julia Ridley Smith. University of Georgia Press, 238 pp., $22.95.
Julia Ridley Smith’s memoir-in-essays, The Sum of Trifles, begins with an invitation from her … Read the rest
“A Knife Housed in Glass”: Grief and Art in Victoria Chang
By Katie Berta
OBIT, by Victoria Chang. Copper Canyon Press, 120 pp., $17
In her newest poetry collection, OBIT, Victoria Chang quotes John Updike, who wrote, “Each day, we … Read the rest
