Poetry. Anthology from the Boston University MFA Poetry Class of 2018. In his afterword to this anthology of poetry by his recent students in the Boston University MFA program, Robert Pinsky observes, "This collection of poems demonstrates that a gr...
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Poetry. Near the end of the 18th century, out on the far western frontier of Kentucky and Tennessee, the first serial killers in the history of the new American nation conducted a bloody reign of terror. Micajah and Wiley Harpe may have been brothe...
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. The tracks of which Lynn McGee writes are both literal and metaphorical. Many of her poems are based on observations along her daily commute on the New York City subways, and she captures both the urban land...
Fiction. When Agile Hess goes missing, his mother asks his childhood friend Hills to find him. This leads Hills through memories of days spent shooting at bean cans with Agile, before a tragic event that changed their lives; and the search for his f...
Poetry. For her dazzling first book, poet Sara Cahill Marron took inspiration from two seemingly very disparate sources. The first, Marcel Duchamp's final painting, "Tu'm" (celebrating its centenary in the year this book appears), graces the book's ...
Poetry. Women's Studies. In this accomplished and sure first collection, poet Missy Brownson revisits the venerable genre of domestic advice manuals, those 19th and 20th century compendia of wisdom designed to guide women (especially aspiring women ...
Poetry. Award-winning poet Jeff Worley returns with a chapbook of short poems, several previously published but all brought together here for the first time. The result is a distillation of his ever-present wit and scattered bits of wisdom accumulat...
Poetry. "From now on there will not be any more poems," F. Keith Wahle declares in the opening line of this book-length, er, poem, and in the hundreds of lines that follow he enumerates all of the people, places, and things about which poems will no...
Poetry. Latinx Studies. Jeremy Paden returns with a new chapbook of poems imagining the lives of people trapped in darkness, in this case the man-made darkness of political imprisonment in Chile and Argentina. Inspired in substance by stories told b...
Poetry. In the poem "Things We Knew," author Vickie Cimprich lists as the first of these: "How Contrary worked cause we was a part of it." Here "Contrary" is the name of the creek pictured on the cover that flows through part of the Appalachian coun...
Poetry. "[N]o one questions / how a ladder can / rest against a cloud." There are moments when the poetry of Jonathan Greene can seem as airy and insubstantial as the cover of his latest collection. Though each exquisitely well-chosen word bears the...
Literary Nonfiction. For 500 years teachers and scholars have commended the practice of recording "commonplaces," that is, striking and noteworthy phrases encountered while reading for later reference. Few in recent times have taken this advice with...
Poetry. How entirely appropriate that Richard Carr should give the title character of his new poetry collection, FITZPATRICK, a name so rich in historical associations of scandal and transgression. For while we never meet this Rabelaisian artist in ...
Poetry. California Interest. Poetry exists in the play of language, and the earnest playfulness in Jackie Berger's new collection begins in her title, where she speaks of "missing" an exit along life's metaphorical highway, a word with two meanings ...
Poetry. HOW GOD PUNISHES:Gives youthe small prize. Mercifully you never learnof the big one.It is altogether fitting that these lines begin Katerina Stoykova's poetic meditation, for in 2014 the Bulgarian version of HOW GOD PUNISHES (published by IC...