Review by Mary Fontana Tina Kelley won a 2003 Washington State Book Award for her first book of poems, The Gospel of Galore. Her recently published fifth collection, the witty and observant Field Guide to North American Words, does…
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Review by Jane Ward It was fitting to begin reading The Fall-Down Effect, Liz Johnston’s forceful debut novel featuring a family unraveling amid environmental crisis, at the tail end of a summer that saw much of the world baking…
Review by Mindy Kronenberg Chiara DiLello’s eloquent and determined debut collection has much to say about the personal and cultural complexities of being a contemporary woman without children. It also summoned a memory from my early writing years. In…
Review by Jessica de Koninck When my husband died a friend of his who had also lost a spouse said to me, You will find you become the other person. True. I began to see things, to hear things…
Review by Justine Pechuzal Sadiqa de Meijer’s essay collection In the Field begins with loss—that of a writer’s cherished notebook—and thus frames a series of investigations into the finite. The scope is broad: from a medical student questioning the…
Review by Emily Webber Growing up with the Genesis story, Eve was always framed as either a cautionary example or the root of all human suffering, but B.K. O’Connor’s novel, Eve, takes a different path. From the start, the…
Review by Michelle Panik My bank had written and called—multiple times—with news that they were phasing out safe deposit boxes, and I would need to remove my things. While I clearly remembered some of the box’s contents, which my…
Reviewed by Susan Blumberg-Kason The written Chinese character for “mouth” is a square. It’s also included in more complex characters for words like “eat”, “drink”, “breathe”, and “cry”, all words central to the necessities of life. In her recent…
Edited by Melissa Joplin Higley New and forthcoming books (listed by publication date). Elizabeth O’Rourke, Rewoven in the Dew, Kelsay Books, June 2026, poetry Rewoven in the Dew explores shades of what life asks of us when we…
Curated by Melissa Joplin Higley On our Bookshelf this month, books by Elizabeth Metzger, Preeti Parikh, Jo Pitkin, Erin Miller Reid, Linda Scheller, Suzanne Sherman, Avia Tadmor. Jo Pitkin, Village: Recession, Finishing Line Press, August 2026, poetry In…