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‘when they say you can’t go home again, what they mean is you were never there’ by Marty McConnell

Julie Marie Wade

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January 14, 2019 10 min read

This collection is feminist, queer, and attuned to the many sites of self that comprise one person Read More

‘Safe Danger’ by Stephen Zerance

John Francis Leonard

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December 20, 2018 2 min read

Zerance's poems draw from what he knows as a young gay man of his era and are deeply rooted in the classic while maintaining a modern and clean style. Read More

‘Luminous Debris: New & Selected Legerdemain 1992-2017’ by Timothy Liu

Brody Parrish Craig

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December 17, 2018 2 min read

Timothy Liu’s Luminous Debris: New & Selected Legerdemain ranges from poems of war to poems of marriage Read More

‘The Blue Clerk’ by Dionne Brand

July Westhale

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December 13, 2018 1 min read

The Blue Clerkfollows the narrative arc of a speaker/poet and an omniscient clerk. Read More

‘My Girl’s Green Jacket’ by Mary Meriam

Julie Marie Wade

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November 27, 2018 9 min read

Mary Meriam’s new poetry collection might be described as a recursive quest after effable and ineffable things. Read More

‘We Go Seasonal’ by Robert Siek

Walter Holland

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October 11, 2018 5 min read

With We Go SeasonalRead More

‘As Burning Leaves’ by Gabriel Jesiolowski
Julie Marie Wade
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September 13, 2018 8 min read
These poems trace, as in they follow clues toward causation; as in they draw soft silhouettes of hard correlations. Read More

‘bury it’ by Sam Sax
Ronnie K. Stephens
Poetry
September 6, 2018 3 min read
Sam Sax continues to prove that he is one of the most important voices in contemporary American poetry Read More

‘Love and Errors’ by Kimberly Dark
July Westhale
Reviews
August 23, 2018 1 min read
Far from being what they seem, the poems in this collection invite the reader to question what they think they mean; often, they beg for second, third, fourth readings. Read More

‘Some Animal’ by Ely Shipley
Timothy Stock
Poetry
July 31, 2018 3 min read
Ely Shipley has accomplished a meditation on gender and time that is a gift to his readers Read More

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