‘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
