Museum of the Soon to Depart by Andy Young, October 2024. 88 pages
Into the portals of aninterpolated world: A review of Andy Young’s Museum For The Soon to Depart
This world, any world, is interpolated. There is a layer …
Book Review
Where Sleeping Girls Lie
Where Sleeping Girls Lie by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, Feiwel & Friends, March 2024. 416 pages.
“Sade Hussein, student,” she said, and followed up quickly with, “It’s my first day.”
We all remember our first day of high school – the stress, …
Synthetic Jungle
Synthetic Jungle by Michael Chang, Northwestern University Press, March 2023. 104 pages.
Landscapes of Encounter
Michael Chang’s Synthetic Jungle is a kaleidoscope of “erotic potential” (4), characterized by hyper-physical syntax, compression, and abandon. It is a radiant flirtation with …
For Today
For Today by Carolyn Hembree, LSU Press, January, 2024. 106 pages.
“World at large / world at home”
Most striking about award-winning poet Carolyn Hembree’s third full-length poetry collection, For Today, are its wide stretches across time, event, and …
The Loved Ones: Essays to Bury the Dead
The Loved Ones: Essays to Bury the Dead by Madison Davis, Dzanc Books, June, 2023. 162 pages.
Winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize, The Loved Ones is a collection of short autobiographical essays exploring death, grief, and memory. Madison Davis …
After the Rapture: a novella
After the Rapture: a novella by Nancy Stohlman, Mason Jar Press, 2023. 115 pages.
While it has become easier to imagine the end of the world, Nancy Stolhman’s imaginative writing has given life to an entirely new interpretation of what …
Little Mr. Prose Poem: The Selected Poems of Russell Edson
Little Mr. Prose Poem: The Selected Poems of Russell Edson Edited by Craig Morgan Teicher, BOA Editions, 2022. 168 pages.
Highlighting the iconic prose poems of one of the masters of the genre, Little Mr. Prose Poem: The Selected Poems …
I Kissed Shara Wheeler
I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston. Wednesday Books, 2022. $19.99, 368 pages.
“It’s not that Shara is that important; it’s just that, without her, Chloe’s not sure what the point of anything is.”
We all have a Shara. The …
Scale Model of a Country at Dawn
Scale Model of a Country at Dawn by John Sibley Williams. Small Press Distribution, 2022. $18.95, 102 pages.
Scale Model of a Country at Dawn by John Sibley Williams is a collection of poetry offering a view of his inner …
At the End of Everything
How do you feel fear? Do you freeze as the world around you slows to a blur? Do you run, hoping that your feet can keep up with the ground beneath them long enough? Do you fight either to protect yourself or those around you, ignoring the consequences of bruises that will last days after the fear stops? In the Hope Juvenile Treatment Center, knowing how you feel fear is synonymous with staying alive. Fear is taught on day one of being inside Hope, with guards that snap like twigs breaking off in the wind. That is, until one night when all the guards disappear and fear takes on an entirely new name.
