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Review: All Transparent Things Need Thundershirts by Dana Roeser

September 21, 2020

Lisa Grgas

(Kingston, WA, Two Sylvias Press,  2019) The clusterfuck that is the year 2020 continues, unabated, and I again am reaching for poetry. I suppose poetry is a de facto litmus test for my fractured attention. If I can read a … Continued

A Review of Appalachians Run Amok by Adrian Blevins

October 22, 2018

Alex Crowley

(Kingston, WA: Two Sylvias Press, 2018) Appalachia has for decades served as a kind of internal American other, an amorphously defined place peopled by poorly drawn caricatures of whatever downtrodden stereotype happens to be en vogue. The popular imagination as … Continued

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