Filth And Glory
byWITCH by Rebecca Tamás (Penned in the Margins, 2019) In her debut collection, WITCH, Rebecca Tamás explores history, language, nature and the body through the lens…
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A Streak of Blood on a Long Skinny Fjord
byWaitress in Fall by Kristín Ómarsdóttir, translated from the Icelandic by Vala Thorodds and published by Carcanet / Partus Press, 2018 It is a…
Tension Sustained
byThe Poem’s Country: Place and Poetic Practice (Pleiades, 2017) edited by Shara Lessley and Bruce Snider Though the mountain has been fixed in place…
Outside the Word Balloon
byfor Bill BerksonCandid paths crossingThis way and thatAn iron-on winter rain Jackknifes through the treesEffortless smileSuch capable handsSublime scribble Bending the windTurrets of excessOverlook…
Broken Systems, Broken Lines: On Three Chapbooks
byWhite: An Abstract by Joy Katz Abstract, by definition: Adjective existing in thought or by definition but not having a physical or concrete existence…
Breaking Boundaries, Healing Climates
byBoundaries (dancing girl press & studio, 2017) by Erin Coughlin Hollowell and Little Climates (Bull City Press, 2018) by L.A. Johnson Hollowell’s Boundaries is…
WE CAN IMAGINE IMPOSSIBILITY OR WE CAN READ WOMEN: 25 Poetry Collections
byThe year 2018 marks the halfway point through one of the most misogynistic presidencies in American history. This year was equally full of women’s…
Between Becoming
byA Review of Eve Luckring’s The Tender Between that Begins and Ends Nearly as Many Times as the Book Has Sections Ornithopter Press, 2018…
A Bloody Mess
byBetty Sue is fixing a roast, in honor of Wynette who died last Tuesday. The meal will be a stick-to-your-ribs affair—beef with potatoes and…
Seeds & Seasons
byAnemochory (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2016) and Season of Dares (Bull City Press, 2018) by Leah Silvieus Leah Silvieus’s first chapbook, Anemochory, takes its title…