Buzzkill Clamshell Amber Dawn Arsenal Pulp Press Review by Margo LaPierre Pain can limit us. A bed can be a constraint. But in Amber Dawn’s third solo collection of poetry and eighth book with Arsenal Pulp Press, constraint elevates...
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...
by Janice Weizman In blogs, opinion pieces, and online forums responding to Alice Munro’s silence in the face of her daughter, Andrea Skinner’s revelations of sexual abuse at the hands of Munro’s second husband, I came across numerous responses...
ANOMIABy Jade WallacePalimpsest Press, 2024Review by Margaryta Golovchenko There is a special quality to a novel written by a poet. This is very much the case with ANOMIA, the debut novel by Jade Wallace, who forms one half of...
How to Be AloneHeather Nolan Goose Lane Press, 2023 Review by Marcie McCauley Knowing that Heather Nolan is also a songwriter, one’s tempted to view the structure of their second book, How to Be Alone, like a lyric with...
Graphis scripta / writing lichenby Clare GouletGaspereau Press, 2024 Review by Kim Trainor Clare Goulet’s first poetry collection, Graphis scripta / writing lichen, draws its title from a lichen found in wet coastal forests, known by its common name...
