John Fry’s debut collection of poetry is akin to a queer anointing for any reader who has ever felt lost, cast out, unwelcome…. read more

Mary Meriam’s new poetry collection might be described as a recursive quest after effable and ineffable things…. read more

These poems trace, as in they follow clues toward causation; as in they draw soft silhouettes of hard correlations…. read more

Tall as You Are Tall Between Them, Annie Christain’s debut poetry collection, offers readers a raucous and glorious, spiritual and secular, cosmic and commonplace cacophony of voices…. read more

Here we encounter poetry as archery: precise, adept: each enjambment taut as a bow, each image piercing as the head of an arrow… read more

This book is what happens when aesthetics and activism are yoked in the finest possible literary form… read more

Richie Hofmann’s Second Empire is a stately and elegant volume, nuanced in intention and artful in execution… read more

The following excerpt is from The State of Our Union: A Collage, an essay collection from Julie Marie Wade… read more

Here are some notes I made in the margins and end pages of my advanced copy of Caprice: Collected, Uncollected, and New Collaborations by Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton as I was reading and mulling and laughing my way through nearly three hundred pages of lineated and prose poetry on a recent, cross-country flight:… read more

The poems are sensuously complex, perhaps the most complex of Barot’s canon… read more