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"'As if a poem is what’s at the bottom of a bunch of bees….' Fauth reminds us that etymology makes legacy, and sometimes, context is lost, leaving us with myth."
by Mikal Wix
January 24, 2024
“Meyerson’s deft hand creates a well-crafted, quick-paced, and all-together good book.”
by Christy O'Callaghan
January 23, 2024
“The thrill of this collection lies not only in the muscular relevance of each poem, but in the opportunity to get to read why and how it is important to another poet.”
by Allisa Cherry
January 23, 2024
POETRY REVIEW
FICTION REVIEW
POETRY REVIEW
"One of Giraudon’s many strengths in this collection is her ability to diagnose the relationship between poetry and cinema: ‘how to show what’s off-screen in the poem. "
POETRY REVIEW
“Caroline Harper New’s poetry in A History of Half-Birds is a robust and enterprising collection of real and imagined dreamscapes designed to provoke the subliminal and visceral to beautiful effect, or maybe to butterfly effect, as the poems all support the notion that our world is deeply interconnected.”
by Mikal Wix
January 16, 2024
POETRY REVIEW
“Derek Annis’s chapbook River City Fires inhabits an abstract and dislocated landscape. It's a territory marked by the elemental: water, fire, sky. There is only ‘the town’, ‘the river’, ‘the wolves’, or ‘the trees.’ As Carl Phillips notes in his judge’s citation, these poems make ‘bewilderment itself a world.”
by Sebastien Luc Butler
December 12, 2023
POETRY REVIEW
“Melo uses the narrator’s experience and path to enlightenment to illustrate the ways shame and silence are used as weapons.”
by Corrine Watson
December 5, 2023
FICTION REVIEW
"ní Dochartaigh’s prose breaks into pure poetry, complete with line breaks, abundant white space on the page, and language that lifts into a lyrical sensibility to circle an idea and point towards the heart of it.."
by Claire Jussel
November 15, 2023
NONFICTION REVIEW
"Valid by Chris Bergeron is a work of dystopian autofiction by a Quebecoise transgender journalist and is one of the most original novels I have ever read.“
by Shana Scudder
November 1, 2023
FICTION REVIEW
“With astute observation and unflinching self-reflection, Chin invites readers into his turbulent childhood, brimming with hospitality and opportunity, ultimately filling literary hearts to the brim”
by Melissa Goodnight
October 17, 2023
NONFICTION REVIEW
by Derek Graf
January 16, 2024
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