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 ...
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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...
Poetry. Religion & Spirituality. The dictionary definition of "hagiography" is a biography of a saint, but though some saints turn up here, Michael Joyce's A HAGIOGRAPHY OF HEAVEN AND VICINITY is more a travelogue through a unique poetic landscape w...
Poetry. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. In this new poetry collaboration from Kristina Marie Darling and Carol Guess, the real estate phenomenon of "home staging" becomes a metaphor for the illusions, and dissolution, of marriage. Or more broadly,...
Fiction. It is spring 1875, and in an effort to boost the prestige of his new racetrack in Louisville and the first running of his Kentucky Derby, Meriwether Lewis Clark, Jr. has invited the most famous couple in America to attend. Abraham and Mary ...
Poetry. Steven Cope returns with new poems treating his timeless themes: the tenuous relationship of mankind with the natural world, fraught with moral and spiritual dimensions; and the difficulty for even such a master of words to express experienc...