Poetry. Latinx Studies. California Interest. As Faulkner famously wrote, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." This is the theme running through Robert Eastwood's CANTATA ANGELENO, a composition of many voices all telling of Los Angeles' tra...
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Poetry. Native American Studies. California Interest. Many of the poems in this collection are inspired by stories told by Ascension Solorsano de Cervantes, a descendant of indigenous people in what became California, and the last fluent native spea...
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Poetry. California Interest. The name of Don Thompson's new collection of quatrains derives from a quote by Randall Jarrell, describing a poet as "a maker of stone axes" and asking, "why make them now?" The answer to Jarrell's question may be found ...
Poetry. The title of Karren Alenier's new collection, HOW WE HOLD ON, seems especially timely, appearing at the end of a year of pandemic dislocations. But though Covid does make an appearance here, her themes are far broader, timeless and universal...
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. In OUR DELICATE BARRICADES DOWNED, William Reichard writes of small-town and city life on the prairie of his native Minnesota, but any association this might suggest with the work of a certain other Minnesotan is immediately...
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. The confluence in the title of this debut collection from Samantha DeFlitch describes the meeting of three rivers, the Monongahela and Allegheny which come together at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio. The three sections of her b...
Poetry. The arrival of a new book of poetry from Jonathan Greene is always a pleasure, but never has it felt more welcome and more needed than now. These new poems arrive like old friends, familiar in their form and themes, and there is great comfor...
Poetry. After "Eavesdropping on the Poets at the Coffee House," with their rage and profanities, Allison Thorpe observes of her own poetry that she "could be Anne Bradstreet / in my quaintness," writing of "lilacs, / mourning doves, / tomatoes embar...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. THE ELSEWHERE is a new book with a long history. In a new arrangement of three books of poetry, a verse memoir, a poetic prose memoir, and essay collections on poetics, as well as new poems, THE ELSEWHERE re-scor...
Poetry. The Vietnam War happened a long time ago in a place far away. For an entire generation, those known as Boomers, it was one of the most defining events of the age, certainly for all those who fought in it, but also for those who protested aga...
Literary Nonfiction. Religion. First we have to talk about the elephant in the room—though that might not be the most polite term for Jesus! For many millions of people around the world, Jesus is the Son of God, the divine source of their salvation,...
Poetry. It may be true, as often said, that journalism is the first draft of history. But to know how it felt to be alive at any point, to experience the world first-hand, poetry is the truest record. That's why the poems in this new chapbook from M...
Poetry. African & African Ameican Studies. The title of this new volume of poetry by upfromsumdirt packs a lot of meaning and intention into a mere three words. It is dedicated to Emmett Till, and more recent Black victims of violence, and is entire...
Poetry. "It's what is familiar in dreams / that is full strange, / as any child will tell you, / I too am unbidden/ & aspire to digress." There are poets who describe the world, a great many of them; but far fewer are the poets who create worlds. To...
Poetry. In the foundational Western origin myth, the first order of creation is light, which is described as good, and ever since light has been associated with goodness. It is light that reveals and thus brings into being everything else, and in th...