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The Low Passions: Poems by Anders Carlson-Wee Norton, March 2019 80 pages / Amazon / Bookshop   In The Low Passions, poet Anders Carlson-Wee thumbs his way through the new…

My mother turned up at my door with a huge hunk of fish wrapped in newspaper. She rarely stopped by the house even though she lived right down the street. …

by Yásnaya Elena A. Gil Translated by John Pluecker   One of the clearest signs of the position held by indigenous languages in Mexico is the small number of spaces…

* * * Yesterday, rain brushed every window white, locking us deeper inside. Today, birds mouth mats of mud. In crevices under the deck, the robin is too obvious a…

Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy and Mark Fisher by Matt Colquhoun Repeater, March 2020 301 pages / Bookshop / Amazon   The past few months have seen much speculation on what…

WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…

Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz Algonquin Books, October 2019 336 pages / Bookshop / B&N / Amazon   “All my life I’d been waiting for this book.” Ashley Perez from…

On Lighthouses by Jazmina Barrera, translated by Christina MacSweeney Two Lines Press, May 2020 174 pages / Bookshop / Amazon    I wanted to know the lighthouse to its very…

The Untapped Gold Mine of Taco Bell That Virtually No One Knows About “Grilled chicken burrito, no ranch avocado sauce. Substitute Fritos in for the avocado sauce.” The front of…

I.   They had all disappeared before I arrived. Death. Distance. Disconnection. And discontent. Mother said her mum jubilated when she conceived me. But earth had taken her in, folding…

For one 500g loaf of bread: Measure, in a medium dish: 1/3 cup whole grain cereal mix. Add:  1/2 to 1 cup boiled water (I do this in stages, the…

Whiteout Conditions by Tariq Shah Two Dollar Radio, March 2020 114 pages / Bookshop / Amazon   Tariq Shah’s spare debut novel, Whiteout Conditions, finds itself at the intersection of…

Turning to Poetry for Hope during the Pandemic and the Uprising   I am not one to shy away from talking about the limits of poetry. Poetry is many things,…

Whack! I crimp cable in a computer factory. Never successfully. No matter how hard I try to master crimp connection, the inspector calls me back and asks if I know…