The Painful, Joyful Hours: A Review of Bruce Snider’s Fruit
byBruce Snider’s new collection Fruit, winner of the Four Lakes Prize in Poetry, turns and turns again around the subject of being childless, of…
Reviews
We Learn the Names: a Review of Kathryn Nuernberger’s Rue
byIn her essay “Upstream,” Mary Oliver offers her reader a scenario of a mind oriented towards (and in, and through) nature: “When the chesty,…
The Rich Life of Objects in Elliott Colla and Ganzeer’s “We Are All Things”
byWe Are All Things, a graphic chapbook written by Elliott Colla and illustrated and designed by Ganzeer, luxuriates in the inner life of objects,…
The Vastness and Reserve of ‘Gbenga Adeoba’s Exodus
by‘Gbenga Adeoba’s remarkable first collection Exodus attends to the experience of those who have been forced to migrate from their homes by wars, disasters,…
Between The Fragments
byThe title of Jenny Offill’s new novel Weather is—like this small, strange, haunting book itself—perfect in its concision: a word that captures both the…
Wonder and Truth
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Pricking by Jessica Cuello. Tiger Bark Press, 2016. 73 pages. $16.95. I. In Jessica Cuello’s first two full-length collections of poetry, the historical past...
Inhabited By Ghosts
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The pregnant female body is “a body-stage,” writes Jessica Q. Stark in her poetic debut Savage Pageant, where she deftly moves from the spectacle...
Radical Tenderness and Illness as Resistance in Amy Berkowitz’s Tender Points
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CW: Child abuse and SA “I believe that unless we treat each other with tenderness and care now the revolution won’t come. Tenderness isn’t...
From Wound to Wonder
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Exit Pastoral by Aidan Forster. YesYes Books, 2019. 32 pages. $12. Bruce Snider, writing on his experience as a queer poet, recounts how he...
Sound, Collage, and Hybridity as Lyric
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“This day has a quietness / that sticks” read the first two lines of the poem “Ohio” in Kathryn Cowles’s second collection of poems,...