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Counting Down to the New Year: Five of My Favorite Books of 2014

by McKenzie | Jan 2, 2015 | Blog, Reading

  Happy New Year, all! I hope you had a wonderful celebration of the upcoming new year and were able to spend some time recounting the good memories of 2014. Along with going to school and becoming a mom, this was definitely a year for reading and reviewing...

Moving Forward, Moving Back: Reading Jason Odell Williams’ Personal Statement

by McKenzie | Oct 16, 2014 | Reviews, YA Literature

  We’ve all been there. We reached the final year of high school and discovered the college, the school, the job, the career that we wanted, and we attempted to move forward. We did everything we thought we needed to do—and more—to ensure that we...

Interrobang: An Interview with Jessica Piazza

by McKenzie | Sep 21, 2014 | Poetry Collections, Reviews

  Click here to view my review of Interrobang. Jessica Piazza’s first full-length collection, Interrobang, was published by Red Hen Press in September 2013 and was the recipient of the AROHO 2011 To the Lighthouse Poetry Prize and the 2013 Balcones Poetry...

Transforming Her Power, Her Beauty, Her Image: Reading Rebecca Hains’ The Princess Problem

by McKenzie | Sep 9, 2014 | Reviews, Theory-Based

  It’s September, and in a matter of weeks, my first daughter will be born. In a rush of summer cleaning and nesting, reading parenting books and planning-planning-planning, I have also found myself searching for books to begin my daughter’s library, as well as...

The Surrealist and Bodily Nature of Grief: Reading Kristin Bair O’Keeffe’s The Art of Floating

by McKenzie | Sep 5, 2014 | Fiction, Reviews

  Even when you read regularly, it takes time to find something truly great; but every once in a while, there will be a book, a poem, a story, that truly turns you on your heel, holds you in place, and keeps you loving, recommending and discussing that piece for...
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