There are primary and secondary definitions of sisterhood: one relating to blood sisters, and one relating to any community of women. In her second collection of poems, Julie R. Enszer holds both definitions close with evocative results. Read More
A confession: I like to read the endings first. Not for novels or narrative memoirs, but always for a collection...
The poems of Carl Phillips are not an easy read; that is their innate pleasure. Over time, they become, to...
“If I were a postcard, she could hide me in her pocket / if I were clay / she could...
Tour of the Breath Gallery may speak quietly, but nonetheless leaves an indelible trace. Read More
This week, a stirring new poem by Karissa Morton.
Morton hails from Iowa & holds an MFA from Bowling Green State University, where she currently teaches creative writing. She's the poetry editor of Revolution House Magazine & editor-in-chief of Poets on Sports. Read More
"There is a certain level of exhaustion moving from city to city and experiencing the same challenges. It’s as though all of our cities are becoming monolithic representations of so many systematic ills, becoming indistinguishable from each other."
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The first line of the first chapbook in the Unthinkable Creatures catalog declares, “THERE IS NOTHING CREEPY ABOUT HAVING FEELINGS”—a fitting entrance for a chapbook press that prizes the raw heart above all. Read More
My Poems Won’t Change the World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Bilingual Edition) is an unmitigated, extensive collection of complex and...
Alice emerges from the poems of Annotated Glass as the goddess Athena must have from Zeus’ head—after enormous pressure and...
