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“Lucy Ives’ essay collection An Image of My Name Enters America is a ruminating look at the paradoxes of life through our shared history and culture.”
by Melissa Goodnight
October 15, 2024
“In the slithery, slippery, law-averse world of New Orleans that we know to have existed in 1853, the author uses Benito Juarez not as an object of study, but as a lens of observation.”
by Tom Johnson
October 1, 2024
“Jamal illustrates how memory is often unreliable.”
by Corrine Watson
September 17, 2024
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“Effortlessly weaving accessibility with perspicaciousness, Reeves offers himself as both peer and professor, sharing stories about ancestry, fatherhood, and what it means to be a Black American in the 21st century.”
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“Allen not only welcomes the reader into a personal narrative replete with violence and doubt but also challenges us to re-contextualize our understanding of history and identity.”
by Allisa Cherry
August 21, 2024
POETRY REVIEW
“Bluff is painfully bleak one page, viscerally hopeful the next. In this, it is a stark embodiment of what it feels to be alive in this country: head-spinning, messy, ravenous, awful, uneven, and pulled in a thousand directions at once.”
by Sébastien Luc Butler
August 20, 2024
POETRY REVIEW
“Marris’ debut essay collection The Age of Loneliness takes readers into deeply insulating landscapes by skillfully weaving personal narrative and ecological history.”
by Melissa Goodnight
August 7, 2024
NONFICTION REVIEW
“Marris’ debut essay collection The Age of Loneliness takes readers into deeply insulating landscapes by skillfully weaving personal narrative and ecological history.”
by Corrine Watson
August 6, 2024
NONFICTION REVIEW
“At the heart of Jellyfish Have No Ears is the idea of connection, language in all its forms, and verbal and nonverbal communication.”
by Hannah Ryder
August 6, 2024
FICTION REVIEW
“Anyone who wishes to keep track of the pulse of contemporary world poetry would be hard-pressed to find a more succinct sample of the most
promising trends the medium has to offer.”
by Derek Graf
July 23, 2024
POETRY REVIEW
by Nicole Gantz
September 17, 2024
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