Mythical ManDavid LyPalimpsest Press, 2020 Review by Hasan Namir There, viper scalesframea smoky-eyed stare––you never know where the gazewill strike David Ly’s debut poetry collection, Mythical Man, opens with the title poem, “Mythical Man I.” The poem, shaped like...
Interview by Tanvi Bhatia We’re thrilled to introduce to you our 2020 Jacob Zilber Prize winners. This year’s winners, chosen by contest judge Kristen Arnett, brought us into three distinct spaces imbued with loss, neglect, and longing. In each...
By Muniyra Douglas Minister Faust’s 2011 novel, The Alchemists of Kush, is considered literature’s first “hip hop epic“. But Minister Faust’s creative Africentrist vision isn’t limited to novels––he also reaches into video games, sketch comedy, journalism, podcasts, and more....
Photo by Gordon HillInterview by David Ly Amy LeBlanc’s debut poetry collection, I know something you don’t, is a magical journey. LeBlanc has a natural eye for beauty, and even the darkest moments of the collection’s poems entice the...
The Foley Artist: StoriesRicco Villanueva SiasocoGaudy Boy, 2019 Review by Serkan Görkemli Queer literary writing is enjoying unprecedented exposure in the world of publishing, but we need more stories that reflect the racial, ethnic, and geographical diversity in our...
Photo by Oriette D’AngeloInterview by Sara Mang I first encountered the generosity and brilliance of Garth Greenwell during the Disquiet Literary Program in Lisbon, where he encouraged his students to feel the sentences in our bodies. Greenwell’s innovative new...
Pots and Other Living Beingsannie rossTalonbooks, 2019 A Tent, A Lantern, An Empty BowlM. Travis LanePalimpsest Press, 2019 Review by Kim Trainor With the advent of SARS-CoV-2, for many of us there has been a contraction of the world...
Interview by Erica Commisso April 20 marked the release of Nicole Fleetwood’s book, Marking Time (Harvard University Press), the result of a years-long look at art produced in the confines of incarceration. Fleetwood, the director of the Institute for...
Life Sentence,rob mclennanSpuyten Duyvil, 2019 Review by Margo LaPierre Life Sentence, (the unusual punctuation is deliberate, you’ll see) is a poetry collection that begins quietly, with much purpose, and picks up speed as it goes along like a river...