Poetry. African & African American Studies. Family reunions are special occasions, a time of connections, reflections, of meeting new members, remembering those no longer with us, more than a little gossip (a good reason not to miss one if you don't...
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Poetry. There is something wondrously imponderable about the title of Nancy Botkin's latest poetry collection: the next infinity. What would that be like, the something that comes after everything? After negotiating one's way through religion, throu...
Poetry. Women's Studies. At one point in Chrissy Kolaya's new poetry collection, she recounts a Korean student struggling to recall the English word "nightgown" and instead saying "dream dresses." How perfect a description for these poems, for in re...
Poetry. Stillness, especially in poetry, is often a virtue, evoking peace, rest, the quiet of nature; but in this new collection of poetry from David Salner, stillness is an aftermath, a consequence of ending and absence. As in the title poem, surve...
Poetry. "Strange practices I'm acquainted with! One / part of myself, a crazed character, talks to / another in an alphabetical degeneration. / It's not the way of the shaman, but my own / signature dialogue." In the poem "An Abstract Piece" an imag...
Poetry. Jewish Studies. Women's Studies. Julia Knobloch has led a peripatetic life, from her native Germany, through years spent in several countries (her time in Buenos Aires inspired many poems here, as well as the cover image), to her current hom...
Poetry. "Somebody scrape it out, write it down, / all of it, nothing brushed aside..." Peter Schireson follows his own injunction in his new collection of poems, SWORD OF GLASS, leaving nothing out, encompassing matters cosmic and comic, revealing t...
Poetry. The dictionary tells us that a "ghost writer" is one who writes for another, but the matter is not so straightforward in Melody Davis's latest poetry collection. Who are the ghosts here, and who the writer? The book begins with poems about h...
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...
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...