New fiction, both novels and short stories, memoir, and poetry. Eileen Vorbach Collins, Love in the Archives, Apprentice House 11/23, nonfiction (suicide). Eileen Vorbach Collins’s Love in the Archives, a Patchwork of True Stories About Suicide Loss, is a collection…
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A Literary Reflection by Wendy BooydeGraaff on Kiss the Ground, a Netflix Documentary and Soil: The Story of A Black Mother’s Garden by Camille T. Dungy I began watching Kiss the Ground with my spouse, with whom I’ve gardened the…
Seeing Our Children in Art: on “The Stone Boat” in Kelly McMasters’s The Leaving Season A Literary Reflection by Anna Rollins Recently, I archived photos of my children’s faces from my public social media accounts. I’d always given thought to…
Splinters by Leslie Jamison You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie Smith This American Ex-Wife by Lyz Lenz Review by Denise Napoli Long It’s called Divorce Memoir, but there ought to be a subcategory, Divorce Mom Memoir,…
Review by Carla Panciera L’Air du Temps is the name of a perfume and the title of Diane Josefowicz newest book, the first in a proposed trilogy. (Josefowicz’s debut novel is Ready, Set, Oh, also set in her home…
Review by Suzette Bishop Miriam Levine’s Forget about Sleep, the 2023 winner of The Laura Boss Narrative Poetry Award, stays with you, unguarded, blooming, fragrant, rustling. Life on Earth is paradise. And it isn’t paradise. What do we do…
Review by Sharon Tracey Fabulosa—the second poetry collection by Karen Rigby—lives up to its title, propelled by a sensory rush of cinematic color as the poet pulls us through poems as vivid as paintings, as physical as putting on…
MER Bookshelf April 2024 Books of poetry, memoir, fiction, short stories, and an anthology on our radar….. Sarah Ghazal Ali, Theophanies. Alice James Books, 2024. (poetry). Moving between the scriptures of the Qur’an and the Bible, the poems…
Review by Jessy Randall I first encountered the work of Erin Malone when I was on a badly-managed, amateurish, truly terrible three-person judging panel for a chapbook contest that no longer exists. Malone’s manuscript was, in my opinion, the…
Review by Ruth Hoberman Marjorie Maddox’s most recent book, In the Museum of My Daughter’s Mind, is a (mostly) joyous celebration of prickly, eccentric visions. In 2018, Maddox tells us, she and her daughter, Anna Lee Hafer, a visual…