Poetry. About McGriff's BLACK POSTCARDS, poet John Witte writes "these poems transpire in moonlight, bending but not breaking. Rarely has a writer so thoroughly described the abrasion of his spirit. Childhood, the homeplace, even the lover's body ar...
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Poetry. Karyna McGlynn's THE 9-DAY QUEEN GETS LOST ON HER WAY TO THE EXECUTION sends readers into a disruptive fervor. 'There is an abundance of something in me,' one poem's narrator confesses, 'if only black bile.' McGlynn tangles word and flesh to...
Poetry. "Heavenly joy means growing backwards," Szporluk tells readers early in STARTLE PATTERN, foreshadowing the tilting path of her collection. Haunted by visions of loss and the ongoing violence of the body, these poems unfold like memories thro...
Poetry. "These are poems of such compassionate energy and social power that they would make both Whitman and Neruda proud. James Nolan is the prodigy of both, at home in their company. A New Orleanian with a well-stamped passport, he knows the world...
Poetry. "The dark trees of midnight have always been as central to Robert Gregory's poems as the flowers in the garden are in James Schuyler's. I've always thought of Gregory as a solitary walker whose sharp eye never misses a fleeting shadow, a hid...
Poetry. "You can feel these stirring, whirlwinding poems, each echoing each, bits and pieces surfacing here, disappearing there, only to resurface, thrillingly unexpectedly, spinning you around again. 'One thing leads to another' and another and ano...
Fiction. K. L. Cook's award-winning LOVE SONGS FOR THE QUARANTINED illuminates the unexpected, the unforeseen—the moments when, without warning, everything changes. A surprise visit from the infamous Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow disturbs a thirtee...
Poetry. "Adam Hammer was an American original: a sweet, disturbing, happy, driven, comic surreal and tragic baseball fan whose poems graze madly among a Rube Goldbergish circus of our tonalities, foibles, commodities, and dreams. He was also brillia...