Date: December 7, 2020
Thank you all for voting! Congratulations to Lara Ehrlich (author), Caitlin Sacks (designer of ANIMAL WIFE) and everyone else at Red Hen. Here is a brief snippet of the article […]
Date: December 7, 2020
Marion Roach Smith sits down with Jennifer Risher, author of WE NEED TO TALK: A MEMOIR ABOUT WEALTH for a questions and answers podcast/interview. This topic includes writing on the […]
Date: December 7, 2020
” I had been there twice, but by now so many years had gone by that I had to ask the girl in the office where it was. She gave me […]
Date: December 7, 2020
Thank you Lit Reactor! Read the rest of their list here!
Date: December 3, 2020
Elise Paschen reads and discusses her poem “Heritage, X” on July 13, 2020, from her study in Harbert, Michigan. Paschen is the author of The Nightlife, Bestiary, Infidelities, and Houses: […]
Date: December 2, 2020
ANIMAL WIFE by Lara Ehrlich, a collection of fairy tales that turn up the volume on the quiet desperation in the lives of women and girls until the characters scream, rage, […]
Date: December 2, 2020
Issue 1|2: “Nothing Personal” by Tina Schumann ~ Nothing Personal Is it the wind carousing the birch tree across the street?The reliable creak of the screen door, or the catssleeping […]
Date: November 30, 2020
Editor’s note: We’re hard at work finalizing our Best of 2020 book list, so we’re playing a lightning round version of #bookradar! We may be a little pithier than usual, […]
Date: November 30, 2020
Washington Independent Review of Books has crafted a list, in no particular order of their most loved titles of 2020. View the list here!
Date: November 30, 2020
From her collection OPEN THE DARK.
Date: January 13, 2021
“Rift Zone” by Tess Taylor, is a powerful, moving collection of poetry giving voice to the voiceless, and to those who express theirs in a whisper, a whimper, a growl, […]
Date: January 13, 2021
I went on this journey, to be sure, knowing where I was headed. The historical part wasn’t that historical to my frame of reference; the queer part contained my frame […]
Date: January 4, 2021
“But the one thing I know for sure, this is the one life you have and you have to make it work.” Some novels make the meat and bones of […]
Date: January 4, 2021
Seasons of the pandemic and some books that bore witness (2020 Small Press Roundup, Part I) by Rebecca Stoddard Sometime back in the beginning of November, my computer crashed and […]
Date: January 4, 2021
5 stars I wasn’t sure what to expect with this collection of short stories and I don’t read them often so I was pleasantly surprised to find that once I […]
Date: December 16, 2020
The lyric essay form, reliant on gaps and fragmentation, beautifully aligns with Koets’ own experience of compression and expansion, as her narrator moves from a closeted existence to one of […]
Date: December 14, 2020
Author/Editor/Poet Rob Mclennan in his blog, reviews Danielle Vogel’s collection THE WAY A LINE HALLUCINATES ITS OWN LINEARITY. The author of Between Grammars (Noemi Press, 2015) and Edges & Fray (Wesleyan University Press, 2019) […]
Date: December 10, 2020
We are all, in this pandemic, a living elegy; there are loves, possibilities, selves, ways of life that are dead, a mobile mortality poets have always known and used their […]
Date: December 2, 2020
It’s difficult for me to find comparisons to these poems. There are qualities that bring to mind Milosz’s humble prophesies or the earthy divinities of Robert Bly. Some of Brewer’s […]
Date: November 30, 2020
Ludvigson’s poems are quiet and linguistically unadorned, a testament to the starkness of bereavement. Despite the simplicity of her language, Ludvigson dedicates many of her poems to the careful description […]
