Tandon's keen eye and idiosyneratic ear---he picks up shard of language and refashions them, making new wholes from fragments of everyday speech---combine to create a poetry with its own quiet urgency
Poetry. Gate: threshold, corridor, barrier. Sahar Muradi engages power, war, illness, and language to evoke the physical and literary passages that accompany individual and collective loss. In [ G A T
Poetry. In Reddy's south Louisiana, gods, saints, and sibyls walk among us. Set against the approach and aftermath of a hurricane, Acadiana's swamps and bayous are liminal spaces where the boundaries
Poetry. Through vivid and sometimes startling image and music, RADIO SILENCE turns absence into sound. The poems in this new collaborative collection by Philip Schaefer and Jeff Whitney come up agains
Fiction. Short Stories. The landscape of Amy Sayre Baptista's PRIMITIVITY is mapped by cracked asphalt and dark woods, by broken bridges spanning greedy rivers, sunbaked dirt and ghost roads, séances
Fiction. In a text that doubles back on itself, revising and reinventing its own trajectory several times over, THE MUDDY SEASON is an excavation into narrative form and political oppression. Set in t
"Rachel Galvin's Pulleys & Locomotion, as the title clues us, is a moving book. The poems are in transit between immigration and flight, and indeed defy gravity along their vertical axes like the
Poetry. PERCEIVED DISTANCE FROM IMPACT forgot to charge its phone, got lost, and is almost happy about it. These poems are catalogues, unorganized purses, they are late to the party and forgot to RSVP
Fiction. Winner of the Fall 2017 Black River Chapbook Competition. Laced with foreboding and propulsive menace, Ashley Morrow Hermsmeier's new collection of short fiction reverberates with the clang o
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. In her debut short collection, poet Kristin Chang bursts onto the page and into our consciousness like a dazzling, dizzying up
Poetry. THE DEATH METAL PASTORALS turns over the rolling green hills of the idyllic American landscape, excavates their violences, and attenuates the powers that live atop them. In Ryan Patrick Smith'
"In the first line of The Brother Swimming Beneath Me, his long-awaited and stunning debut collection, Brent Goodman announces: "There is no afterlife." But there is: in poem after poem "the eye plays
Ficton. Growing up in poverty in the American south, Maya yearns to escape and find something better than anything she's known. "She is so hungry. It is not food, but everything else, the world…
