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“Like a chorus of girls singing a camp anthem across a deep, black lake”– A Review of Kim Fu’s The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore

Review of The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore by Kim Fu

Review by Katie Zdybel

In the opening pages of Kim Fu’s sophomore novel, The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore, a newly-arrived flock of pre-teen girls gather ceremoniously on the dock to sing the camp anthem: “And I shall love my sisters/for-eve-er-more.” Continue reading “Like a chorus of girls singing a camp anthem across a deep, black lake”– A Review of Kim Fu’s The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore

Power of the Powwow: A Review of Tommy Orange’s There There

Review of There There by Tommy Orange

Review by Cody Caetano

No need to worry if you haven’t read the dust jacket, because I got the unblinking one sentence pitch of Cheyenne writer Tommy Orange’s There There to hitch the most disinterested readers: twelve exhausted Native folks reeling from one cross-cultural massacre come home to powwow at the Big Oakland Powwow, inside a big metal dome. Continue reading Power of the Powwow: A Review of Tommy Orange’s There There

Giving Birth to Poems: A Review of Rob Taylor’s The News

The News
Rob Taylor
Gaspereau Press,  2016

Review by Steven Brown

It’s a brave thing to do, forging a plan to write a poem a week during your wife’s pregnancy when the subject of these poems will be your wife’s pregnancy.  The poet can’t guarantee what’s going to happen because anything might happen.  Life is fragile. And a bit of a gamble.

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