‘Land of 10,000 Loves: A History of Queer Minnesota’ by Stewart Van Cleve Rachel Wexelbaum NonfictionReviews October 31, 2012
Stunt Reclaims a Successful Black Business Woman’s History Marlena Chertock Reviews December 10, 2020 4 min readIt is telling that Saida Agostini titled her chapbook Stunt, a word with many meanings—prevented from growing or developing properly...
More Than Organs is a Ferocious and Necessary Collection AD Tenn Reviews November 17, 2020 3 min readKay Ulanday Barrett’s More Than Organs (Sibling Rivalry Press) is a ferocious work of necessity in 2020. This second collection...
Blizzard Delivers a Collection Full of Memory, Feeling, and Sensation Kiran Bhat Reviews October 11, 2020 5 min readA blizzard. A thrust of ice carved into pieces, condensed, and hurled into the wind. Each fragment of snow in...
In Crossfire, Staceyann Chin Observes and Denounces Obstacles to Loving the Self Sarah Sarai Reviews August 9, 2020 3 min readStaceyann Chin’s poems know “how beautiful you are” and want to convince you of same. In her first full-length collection,...
The Expertly Wrought Here is the Sweet Hand Contains Humor, Desire, and Terror Lynn McGee Reviews August 3, 2020 4 min readFull disclosure, I like prepositions to help out in the small ways I expect, and if a verb is used...
The Shore Charts a Course for How to be Humane Allison Cobb Reviews May 29, 2020 4 min readThe primary thing I feel reading Chris Nealon’s The Shore is gratitude. Gratitude that he exists as a writer and...
Postcolonial Love Poem Subverts Dominant Myths with Lyric Poignancy Lynn McGee Reviews April 17, 2020 4 min readI’m grateful for women who have demolished barriers and led us through. Audre Lorde, Judy Grahn and Adrienne Rich have...
Donkey Elegies by Nickole Brown Julie Marie Wade Poetry February 17, 2020 7 min readThis project portends the literary future—two (or more) genres working together for good Read More
13th Balloon by Mark Bibbins Walter Holland Reviews February 16, 2020 6 min read13th Balloon is full of humor, wit, and pathos. Read More
Homie by Danez Smith Sarah Neilson Poetry January 15, 2020 4 min readHomie is expansive, big enough to hold a vast mosaic of emotion and style Read More