‘Tall As You Are Tall Between Them’ by Annie Christain
Tall as You Are Tall Between Them, Annie Christain’s debut poetry collection, offers readers a raucous and glorious, spiritual and secular, cosmic and commonplace cacophony of voices.
‘Wedding Pulls’ by J. K. Daniels
Here we encounter poetry as archery: precise, adept: each enjambment taut as a bow, each image piercing as the head of an arrow
‘Call Me By My Other Name’ by Valerie Wetlaufer
This book is what happens when aesthetics and activism are yoked in the finest possible literary form
Burn, Bodice, Burn
The following excerpt is from The State of Our Union: A Collage, an essay collection from Julie Marie Wade
“I want no ending,” and Neither Will You: ‘Chord’ as Continuation and Expansion of Rick Barot’s Exceptional Canon
The poems are sensuously complex, perhaps the most complex of Barot’s canon
“Too bright/ is the heaven I’m after”: A Review of Celeste Gainey’s ‘The Gaffer’
Celeste Gainey’s debut collection, The Gaffer, is a triumph of nouns—of people, places, things, and ideas presented to us in the most trenchant and timely ways.
“We inhabit the brutal. We are shattered every day./ We look askew”: A Review of Dawn Lundy Martin’s ‘Life in a Box is a Pretty Life’
One of the many things I admire about Dawn Lundy Martin’s poetry is her potent ability to puzzle the reader without losing the reader
‘They Don’t Kill You Because They’re Hungry, They Kill You Because They’re Full’ by Mark Bibbins
Julie Marie Wade gives you ten reasons to read Mark Bibbins’ newest book.
Cheryl Clarke’s ‘Living as a Lesbian’: The Wherewithal to Tell It as It Is
“Clarke is a provocative poet who never asks permission to make her voice heard.”
‘Bend to It’ by Kevin Simmonds
“It would be redundant to ask if Simmonds plays an instrument when his voice is an instrument, a conduit of incomparable depth and range.”
‘Crime Against Nature’ by Minnie Bruce Pratt
Patricia Hampl says, “Autobiographical writing
‘Appetite’ by Aaron Smith
At this year’s AWP, I
‘Small Fires’ by Julie Marie Wade
In Small Fires, Julie Marie Wade, who won a Lambda for her memoir Wishbone, considers family and memory with a poetic eye and unabashed tongue. With her carefully chosen words and a studied deliberateness, Wade proves unafraid to delve into her past—to skillfully reconstruct the events of her youth, from the horrifying to the sentimental to the self-conscious and beyond.
‘Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures’ by Julie Marie Wade
Like the Ocean which literally
