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...
We’re thrilled to announce the 2020 Grouse Grind Lit Prize longlist! “Amundsen’s Bones” by Barbara Black “Descent” by Aileen Hunt “Elk Blue Rush” by Allison LaSorda “Father” by Joanna Lilley “He Says, I’ve Been Rereading Bladerunner and the News...
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...
PRISM international stands in solidarity with Black communities across the United States, Canada, and beyond, in asserting that Black Lives Matter. We join them in demanding justice for the murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Regis Korchinksi-Paquet, and countless...
Photo by Stephen DavisInterview by Kate Finegan The poems in Claire Caldwell’s second collection, Gold Rush (Invisible Publishing, 2020) have something in common with the wilderness—they beg to be revisited. They artfully layer and interrogate the concept of wilderness...
