With a delicate balance between the everyday and the sublime, Heroic Dose by Matt Longabucco ensorcels the reader with narrative and serial poems. Continue reading Wednesday Poetry Corner: Heroic Dose, by Matt Longabucco
The Nights are Quiet in Tehran, by Shida Bazyar, begins with the love story of Behsad and Nahid. Over the course of thirty years, the novel follows the lives of the couple and their children. Continue reading Translation Tuesdays: The Nights are Quiet in Tehran by Shida Bazyar
“the steam shovel, dry, vomits stone” Continue reading Commonplace Book: “Steam Shovel,” by Kirby Congdon
There Are Reasons For This possesses a strange beauty. It tells a sad yet joyous love story amid ecological apocalypse and global economic collapse. Continue reading Espresso Shots: There Are Reasons For This: A Novel, by Nini Berndt
This is my personal attempt to construct a Canon of Intersectionality. Continue reading Adventures in Intersectionality: Part 4: Notes Towards Canon(s) of Intersectionality
Colgate, through the use of accessibility symbology, turns what would be a standard collection of poems into a simulacra of a museum visit. Continue reading Adventures in Intersectionality: Part 3: LGBT / POC / Disability / First Books — Part 3a
Dances with Wolves was a terrible movie. Continue reading Adventures in Intersectionality: Part 2: Personal Taste(s)
Perestroika is a powerful fable about the liberating nature of art and the desire for representative democracy. It is dulled by endless monologuing by cardboard characters. Continue reading Espresso Shots: Perestroika: An Eye For an Eye, A Tooth For a Tooth, by João Cerqueira
Hypochondria by Will Rees is his attempt to chronicle his condition and an exploration of the phenomenon known as hypochondria. Continue reading Espresso Shots: Hypochondria, by Will Rees
“Love and death, suffering and addiction, family and displacement, all become interwoven into a commentary on the present intractable mess. Duong’s poetry assesses the situation with a jaundiced eye, yet his perspective also includes a stubborn hopefulness.” Continue reading Wednesday Poetry Corner: At the End of the World There Is a Pond: Poems, by Steven Duong @ NYJB
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