Demystifications by Miranda Mellis Solid Objects, June 2021 Preorder SPD / B&N 128 pages The smallness of our everyday lives has grown to epic proportions. We have survived the…
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Familiars by Holly Wren Spaulding Alice Greene & Co., December 2020 Amazon 56 pages – poetry The word “familiar”, like many others in our lexicon, has been stripped of…
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Ghost in a Black Girl’s Throat by Khalisa Rae Red Hen Press, April 2021 Bookshop / Amazon 96 pages – poetry In this collection of poetry, Khalisa Rae unveils…
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Things You’d Know If You Grew Up Around Here by Nancy Wayson Dinan Bloomsbury, May 2020 Amazon 336 pages – fiction Counterintuitively, Texas leads the nation in flood-related deaths.…
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If This Is the Age We End Discovery by Rosebud Ben-Oni Alice James Books, March 2021 Bookshop / B&N / Amazon 98 pages — poetry Of all the forces…
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Atomizer by Elizabeth A. I. Powell LSU Press, September 2020 Bookshop / Amazon 112 pages – poetry To catalogue all the scents namedropped in Elizabeth A. I. Powell’s Atomizer…
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Four Quartets: Poetry in the Pandemic Edited by Kristina Marie Darling & Jeffrey Levine Tupelo Press, November 2020 Bookshop / Amazon 296 pages – poetry anthology Four Quartets: Poetry…
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Black Wings by Sehba Sarwar Veliz Books, February 2019 SPD / B&N / Amazon 212 pages – fiction Caught single and living alone in a pandemic, I am grateful…
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Swimming Home by Kayla Rodney Unlikely Books, November 2019 Amazon – 80 pages – poetry Hanging out in New Orleans, one of the first life skills I learned was…
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Softcover by Monica Fambrough Natural History Press, 2015 SPD / Bookshop / Amazon 91 pages – poetry Last week, I brought a poem to my workshop that was about…
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Reviewan Orphic escape-hatch from the Hades of Literalization — Review of John Olson’s Dada Budapest
Dada Budapest by John Olson Black Widow Press, June 2017 Bookshop / B&N / Amazon 401 pages – poetry Dropping acid has certain disadvantages (your body may turn into…
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Imagine Us, The Swarm by Muriel Leung Nightboat Books, forthcoming May 2021 preorder: Bookshop / B&N / Amazon 120 pages – essay collection “How do you write a history…
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Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz Grove Press, February 2021 Bookshop / B&N / Amazon 208 pages – short story collection “Milk Blood Heat,” the title story of…
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Some Animal by Ely Shipley Nightboat Books, May 2018 Bookshop / B&N / Amazon 120 pages – hybrid Ely Shipley’s long-awaited second collection, Some Animal (2018), evades category and…