A Dog Between Us by Duncan Barlow Stalking Horse Press, April 2019 248 pages / Amazon What words outline a human life? Ostensibly, Duncan Barlow’s A Dog Between Us…
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ReviewHolding Other Peoples’ Secrets in Your Hands: A Review of Love is the Drug & Other Dark Poems
Love is the Drug & Other Dark Poems edited by Jessie Carver and Jennifer Lewis Red Light Lit Press, July 2018 88 pages / Amazon Since 2013, the Red…
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After Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour spent roughly two years either in Israeli jail or under house arrest for her poem, “Resist, My People, Resist Them,” I spent a lot of…
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Woman at War | dir. Benedikt Erlingsson | Iceland It’s a war film without the blood and guts It’s a climate change comedy thriller It’s Kill Bill’s Icelandic sister…
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Mouth Trap by Rebbecca Brown Arc Pair Press, September 2018 61 Pages / Amazon Rebbecca Brown’s Mouth Trap is a collection of poetic writing that slips between poetry and…
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I Horizons within the negative spaces of my body were lakes hovering above the road. I follow U. S. 54 from Wichita to the junction with Interstate 10 in…
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Perhaps the rivers of ink that have been expended discussing the nature of the ‘continuous’ over the centuries…have been wasted. Continuity is only a mathematical technique for approximating very finely…
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Juliet the Maniac by Juliet Escoria Melville House, May 2019 336 pages / pre-order: Amazon Unlike a hyper-fictionalized coming-of-age tale where the narrator discovers they have some magical power or…
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Giving Godhead by Dylan Krieger Delete Press, February 2017 82 pages / Amazon / Delete Serenade by Brooke Ellsworth Octopus Books, November 2017 109 pages / Amazon / Octopus …
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After the Tour by Jennifer Minniti-Shippey Calypso Editions, December 2018 72 pages / Calypso may the tower make a fool out of you, may you speak to the tower…
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The Scales by Adam Stutz White Stag Publishing, April 2018 88 pages / White Stag It is unsurprising that “The Ruins,” the opening poem in Adam Stutz’s debut collection…
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Spain by Caren Beilin Rescue Press, November 2018 144 pages / Amazon / SPD Books When I saw Caren Beilin’s Spain in the Small Press Distribution Handpicked December newsletter,…
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Heavy by Kiese Laymon Scribner, October 2018 256 pages / Amazon / Simon&Schuster When I finish reading Heavy, I am at the beach in a country where no one…
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After the Death of Shostakovich Père by Maya Sonenberg [PANK] Little Book Series, 2018 35 pages / Amazon / [PANK] With the legacy of [PANK] Magazine in mind, I…