The Minuses by Jami Macarty University Press of Colorado, March 2020 90 pages / Bookshop / Amazon I first encountered Jami Macarty’s work when the title poem of this…
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Little Hill by Alli Warren City Lights Publishers, March 2020 120 pages / SPD / Bookshop / Amazon Alli Warren took the title to “Moveable C” from Ornette Coleman,…
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True Story by Kate Reed Petty Viking Books, August 2020 336 pages / Bookshop / Amazon The first thing to know is that True Story does it all. It’s…
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Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World by Kathryn Cowles Milkweed Editions, 2020 88 pages / Bookshop / Amazon Kasey Jueds: Hannah, I feel a little tentative about beginning,…
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Memory by Bernadette Mayer Siglio Press, June 2020 336 pages / Amazon Bernadette Mayer’s month of July 1971 spans six hours of recorded audio, 36 feet of wall space,…
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Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall First printed, 1959 Bookshop / Amazon One day in 1959, prolific Harlem Renaissance poet, Langston Hughes, walked into a storefront that was hosting…
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The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic by Miah Jeffra Sibling Rivalry Press, March 2020 140 pages / Bookshop / Amazon And now the museums are closed, and the book tours canceled.…
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Eminent Domain by Carl Neville Repeater Books, June 2020 460 pages / Bookshop / City Lights / Amazon “Is it possible to write a utopia, now?” asked Ursula K…
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Accidentals by Susan M. Gaines Torrey House Press, March 2020 344 pages / Bookshop / B&N / Amazon Susan M. Gaines’ Accidentals meaningfully explores the sheer contingency of human…
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Although it was recorded in summer 2019, Break Your Heart, the debut record by The Snarlin’ Yarns, feels utterly of this moment where “every second’s about a thousand years /…
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Collective Gravities by Chloe N. Clark Word West LLC, July 2020 240 pages / Bookshop / Amazon Collective Gravities, Chloe N. Clark’s debut short fiction collection out with Word West…
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Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng Penguin Books, 2017 352 pages / Bookshop / Amazon Being a mother can be celebratory. Years of providing selfless love and stability can…
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Potted Meat 107 pages, 2016 Water & Power 174 pages, 2018 Both titles available from Tarpaulin Sky Press I saw Steven Dunn read from his first novel, Potted Meat,…
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where bells begin by tessa micaela Rescue Press, November 2019 86 pages / SPD / Amazon / That there’s not a single upper-case letter to be found in tessa…