Light SpillLaura Mota-Juang Block Party, 2023 Review by Bridget Huh Laura Mota-Juang’s imaginative debut chapbook, Light Spill, creates an electrifying atmosphere where abstract concepts and intimate longings alike materialize in startlingly luminous forms. These are poems committed to stretching...
Interview by Renee Cronley Jennifer Mariani’s debut poetry chapbook, All Forgotten Now (Off Topic Publishing, 2022), is an exploration of grief after leaving Zimbabwe at the age of seventeen to pursue a career in ballet in England and later...
Truth OMGImane BoukailaUnrestricted Interest, 2021 Review by Catherine Harris Brimming with tumbling language, tactile sound, and vivid emotion, Imane Boukaila’s chapbook Truth OMG is a blend of sound and motion—a reading experience you can both hear and feel. Boukaila...
If a Carp Dreams of the Milky WayBy Jasmine Gui, with art by Brianna TosswillPenrose Press, 2019 Review by Manahil Bandukwala Published by Penrose Press, Jasmine Gui’s chapbook, If a Carp Dreams of the Milky Way explores mythology through...
The Green Waves: Poems from Roblin LakeRob Taylor845 Press, 2019 Review by Andrew French Rob Taylor’s The Green Waves (845 Press, 2019) transports readers to Al Purdy’s A-frame cabin on Roblin Lake through an inquisitive uncertainty about that unique...
Shapeshifters Estlin McPhee Rahila’s Ghost Press, 2018 Review by Andrew W. French In a poem aptly titled “Poetry,” Louis Dudek writes that the task of the poet is to “find a voice, / lost in the clutter and noise...
Reviews by Esther Chen Tell Everybody I Say Hi by Tess Liem Anstruther Press Tess Liem’s first chapbook opens with a short piece that sets the tone for the rest of the collection. Liem writes “I, a compartment & careful, ...
Stubble Burn David Ly Anstruther Press Review by Kai Cheng Thom The gay male body is razor wit and iridescent verse in David Ly’s Stubble Burn, the debut chapbook of an exciting and necessary voice in Canadian literature. Rooted...
Nix Jessie Jones Desert Pets Press Review by Andy Verboom In poetry, myth is usually deployed either as allusion or as conceit. The distinction between allusion and conceit is analogous to how one might treat a very old hammer:...