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Review: In the Awakening Season by Matthew Mumber

January 18, 2021

(North Adams, MA: Tupelo Press/Leapfolio 2020) In a slim paperbound volume, which sports a pale blossom on its rain-colored cover — reminiscent of Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro” — poet and oncologist Matthew Mumber’s thirty-nine poems offer a … Continued

Review: Going Head to Head by Wade Stevenson

January 11, 2021

Andrea Syzdek

(Kenmore, NY: BlazeVOX Books 2019) Wade Stevenson’s Going Head to Head is a book-length poem that takes the head as its central theme and uses it as a way to explore various states of being — from the metaphysical to … Continued

Review: Arena by Lauren Shapiro

January 4, 2021

Andrea Syzdek

(Cleveland, OH: Cleveland State Poetry Center 2020) Lauren Shapiro’s second poetry collection, Arena, deals with a father’s attempted suicide and its traumatic aftereffects. These poems move back and forth between lyric and prose modes as the speaker seeks to bring … Continued

My Friend Wears Ohio on a Chain

December 31, 2020

Chiara Naomi

For Willa Frierson, the whole family, the Kenyon Review’s Young Writers Workshop, and for Gambier, Ohio: the most magical town in the world. Because I came home I became estranged / but in a soft way, like how … Continued

Cable Knit Sweaters for Motherless Lambs

December 30, 2020

Ashley Hand

When I got out of the military, I stayed on in Albuquerque, renting a house month-to-month from a woman who’d recently been moved to a nursing home. I slept during the day and got a job working nights … Continued

Authors H.L. Hix and Katie Nolan in Conversation

December 29, 2020

Katie Nolan and H.L. Hix

Authors Katie Nolan and H.L. Hix, both philosophers, speak here about their recent releases, The Gospel according to H.L. Hix (Broadstone Books) and Confessions of a Hobo’s Daughter. Through a conversation that took place during this past election season, they touch on care … Continued

Review: Counterclaims by H.L. Hix

December 28, 2020

Hayden Bergman

(McLean, IL: Dalkey Archive Press 2020) Toward. The word looks odd by itself, untethered from what’s behind, not yet having arrived at that which lies ahead. This untethered state is often mistakenly attributed to poetry and poets — it’s accompanied … Continued

Society

December 23, 2020

Nikki Wallschlaeger

The hunters at the gas station under the fluorescent lights. The man in front of me lets me go because I’m a woman, it’s long been a ruling that women and children go first. Waxing towards full duchess, … Continued

Review: One Illuminated Letter of Being by Donald Platt

December 21, 2020

Amy Strauss Friedman

(Seattle, WA: Red Mountain Press, 2020) Donald Platt’s new poetry collection One Illuminated Letter of Being is a tribute to his dead mother Martha, whom he desperately wants back. Closure is a myth; we are unending, ever-evolving, always reshaping the … Continued

Hostage #4

December 18, 2020

Madeline Cash

I’m thirteen and I look like a child bride in my Confirmation dress. I receive the sacrament by an old Pastor who’s also my math teacher and it’s titillating the way he grazes my tongue with the wafer. … Continued

Filling Station

December 16, 2020

Lisa Allen Ortiz

On my way up north I stop to fill the Honda up. I like to time the emptiness so I can fill it at my favorite place: a Chevron with a taqueria in the minimart where the Honda … Continued

Algorithm

December 16, 2020

Lisa Allen Ortiz

The Boardwalk lit up in constellations of tilt-o-whirls and loop-o-planes, and I can’t find a word to express loneliness that brilliant and hard-won. I have a stillness in me that’s yellow-paged and bramble-lashed. I think the word I … Continued

Conversation: Terese Svoboda and Clifford Garstang

December 14, 2020

Clifford Garstang Terese Svoboda

In the summer of 2020, Clifford Garstang, author of House of the Ancients and Other Stories, and Terese Svoboda, author of Great American Desert, interviewed each other via email about their most recent releases of story collections. This is a transcript … Continued

Honeydew

December 11, 2020

Wynne Hungerford

Joe’s eleven-year-old daughter wrote a children’s book and got it published. It was about a little girl eating a jar of cookies while her parents slept. Scholastic loved it. Joe was upset because he had also written a … Continued

I Am a Spongiologist

December 9, 2020

Rennie Ament

I wrote a book called The Book of Disorder I wrote a book called The Atlas of Tics I’m famous in supraliminal circles I wrote a book called The History of the Sponge It has devolving syntax I … Continued

Review: A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers

December 7, 2020

Laura Calaway

(Los Angeles, CA: Unnamed Press 2020) Dark. Delicious. Smart and deeply literary. A novel of sublime prose and piquant wit, A Certain Hunger, by Chelsea G. Summers, is part psychological thriller, part unapologetic tale of sexual desire from a woman … Continued

Bear Man

December 4, 2020

Effy Morris

The Guatemalan Civil War was still raging and the green berets were running the town, spraying the good buildings with bullets. The good buildings with the good designs by white city planners now riddled with holes and breathing … Continued

Essay On Poetics Or Early Morning Texting With Orlando

December 2, 2020

Tina Cane

I’m having trouble writing poetry he wrote trouble being a poetry writer I don’t know I … Continued

from What We Talk About When We Talk About Paths: A Narrative in Captions

December 2, 2020

Tina Cane

Path Today: Fresh Path: Another Kind of Path: Current Path: High School Path: Path of Discernment: Public Speaking Path: Path to The Podium: Monday Morning Path: Path of Least Resistance: Back At It: Path: Sometimes a Path is … Continued

Review: Wretchedness by Andrzej Tichý

November 29, 2020

Forrest Roth

Translated from Swedish by Nichola Smalley (Sheffield, UK: And Other Stories, 2020) Early in Swedish author Andrzej Tichý’s fifth novel, Wretchedness, this reader had the sinking feeling that the narrative would be a latter-day, sentimental retrospective on drug addiction and … Continued

Eat Shit, Horseface

November 23, 2020

Sara Emanuel Viloria

TRANSLATED FROM SPANISH BY DAVID BRUNSON When I think of freedom I think of Isla, my mare, And I think of a photo of my grandmother, Gorgeous at seventeen. She remembers, in those days, When a man told her … Continued

Patria o muerte— ¡Venceremos!

November 23, 2020

Sara Emanuel Viloria

TRANSLATED FROM SPANISH BY DAVID BRUNSON I joined the socialist party at 16. That is I lived through the flowering of a failed state before losing my virginity. We watered the votes with our voices, The revolution was our … Continued

The Long Run

November 20, 2020

Halimah Marcus

Miranda awoke to an empty house—blankets flat beside her, air cold and breathless. Downstairs, the sheets Lucas had used were piled neatly on the couch, a note at their center: Next time, come to the city! She found … Continued

Mother Static

November 18, 2020

Rachael Fowler

I gained twenty pounds this year from eating strictly bananas and avocados. My thighs dimple in the bathtub, and a sheen of moisture coats the mauve and powder-blue octagonal tiles beside me. The bathwater is lukewarm now. The … Continued

Review: They Say Sarah by Pauline Delabroy-Allard

November 16, 2020

Briana McDonald

Translated from French by Adriana Hunter (New York: Other Press, 2020) Written in poetic, gorgeously sparse prose, Pauline Delabroy-Allard’s debut novel, They Say Sarah, captures the intensity of two women’s violent and obsessive love affair. Structured in two parts, … Continued

Penelope

November 13, 2020

Amina Gautier

Weave a new tale for the clever queen. By day she weaves the shroud; by night she … Continued

Dominion and Volume

November 11, 2020

Julie Hanson

He crows to prepare our yards with his presence, and he orders the space between us. He stands it up straight. Inside his own sound, he is the world itself, not of it. He populates our yards with … Continued

“Hawks Do Not Share”

November 11, 2020

Minna Zallman Proctor

Ernest Hemingway met F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald in 1925 when they were all living in Paris. The Great Gatsby had just come out and, according to Fitzgerald, “was not selling well but had very fine reviews.” Hemingway pursued the … Continued

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