Poetry Collections, Reviews & Interviews “My Face Resembles / The One Reflected in the Water”: Reading David Dodd Lee’s And Others, Vaguer Presences The thing that I love about erasure poetry is how interactive it can (and should!) be with the original work it is pulling from….
Poetry Collections, Reviews & Interviews “Black Light / Her Name in a Cup”: Scenes & Impressions: Reading David Dodd Lee’s Animalities David Dodd Lee has been there with me since the beginning—not since the beginning of my reading and loving poetry, but of my writing…
Memoir, Reviews & Interviews Her Heart of Hearts & The Art of Discovery: Reading Jackie Haze’s Borderless When I think of highways, I think of other cars, the open road, corn fields. I think of how limitless, how borderless these highways…
Poetry Collections, Reviews & Interviews ‘This is Not a Pipe’: The Powers of Nature & Grief over Perception & Definition: Reading Ross Gay’s Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude I don’t know about you, but in my mind, perception and grief are united. This is not to say that one cannot exist without…
Poetry Collections, Reviews & Interviews Dialogue of the Body, Dialogue of a Storm: Reading Sandra Marchetti’s Confluence Sometimes I find myself thinking so much about what poetry is or what it can do that I forget to think about how it…
Poetry Collections, Reviews & Interviews “Look Where That Has Gotten Me”: The Potential Self-Awareness & Honesty of Poetry: Reading Tracey Knapp’s Mouth Let me begin by playing a round of Two Truths and a Lie… We all know how this works, right? The speaker shares two…
Poetry Collections, Reviews & Interviews The Rhythm of Reading & Hearing Poetry: Reading Three Beautiful Collections by Susan Lewis Do you ever find yourself in a reading slump? Or too unreasonably busy to even consider finding a way to fit reading in? And…
Reviews & Interviews The Division of History & Fiction: Reading Kristy Cambron’s A Sparrow in Terezin In Kristy Cambron’s A Sparrow in Terezin, the second novel in the A Hidden Masterpiece Novel series, two central female characters, Sera James and…
Poetry Collections, Reviews & Interviews “The Way Poetry Evokes Things / Only Potentially There”: Perception, Identity & Heritage: Reading Allan Peterson’s Precarious In the quiet moments, when we stop to take a breath and think, we may realize that all of our thoughts, our questions, our…
Fiction, Reviews & Interviews To the New York Times Book Review, Domestic Violence is Never Funny: A Response Review of Jill Alexander Essbaum’s Hausfrau Readers, let me explain first that I am not one to contest reviews, whether overly positive, unconstructively negative, or anything in-between. But when a…
Poetry Collections, Reviews & Interviews The Waking, Danger & Consent of the Body & Love: Reading Lisa Mangini’s Bird Watching at the End of the World When we spend a lot of time reading poetry, I know we can become critical of the pursuit of love and the defining of…
Poetry Collections, Reviews & Interviews Clark Kent is a Super Hipster: The Art of Finding Beauty in the Absurd & the Mundane: Reading Shawnte Orion’s The Existentialist Cookbook Here I am, attempting to think of what to say, but my coffee spilled, and it made such a lovely and dark display across…
