Woman, Life, Freedom: Poems for the Iranian RevolutionBänoo Zan and Cy Strom, EditorsGuernica Editions, 2025 Reviewed by Jeannine M. Pitas On September 16, 2022, 22-year-old Mahsa “Jina” Amini, a Kurdish minority in Iran, was beaten to death by the...
A blueprint for survivalby Kim TrainorGuernica Editions, 2024 Review by Leah Bobet It’s at the end of one of climate poetry’s emerging tropes — that our inner landscapes and outer ecologies are one thing after all — that A...
Prescribee by Chia-Lun ChangNightboat Books, 2022 Review by Nicole Miyashiro “Please bear with me,” Chia-Lun Chang writes in “The Accent Floats,” an early poem in her first full-length collection, Prescribee. Born and raised in Taiwan and living in New...
The Sisters K by Maureen SunUnnamed Press, 2024 Review by Jessica PoonThree sisters and an egomaniac dad are foundational to both Shakespeare’s King Lear and Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. The Sisters K, by Maureen Sun, shares tasting notes with...
Sugaring Off by Fanny Britt, translated by Susan OuriouBook*hug Press, 2024 Review by Michelle HardyWhen French-Canadian celebrity chef Adam Dumont accidentally smashes his rental surfboard into the knee of local nineteen-year-old Celia Smith off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard,...
BroughtupsyChristina Cooke House of Anansi Press, 2024 Review by Laurence Lewis Neal To read Broughtupsy is to exist, for the duration of its pages, inside a rip. Playing with form allows authors to communicate something visceral, and Christina Cooke’s...
Marrow Memory: Essays of DiscoveryMargaret NowaczykWolsak & Wynn, 2024 Review by Stephanie Cesca Could Dostoyevsky be the answer to receiving an accurate medical diagnosis? As Margaret Nowaczyk explains in Marrow Memory, her beautifully written and compelling collection of essays,...
In this Double Feature, PRISM international is proud to share Deborah Vail’s review of Kathryn Mockler’s book Anecdote, followed by Vail’s interview with the author. Anecdotes Kathryn MocklerBook*hug Press, 2023 Diving into Anecdotes, Kathryn Mockler’s unique debut collection of...
trust the bluer skies Meditations on Fatherhoodpaulo da costaUniversity of Regina Press, 2024 Review by Irene Marques trust the bluer skies Meditations on Fatherhood is a memoir that recounts, in vivid detail, da costa’s six-month stay in Portugal, the...