Reviews
Madonna, Complex by Jen Stewart Fueston
Review by Sherre Vernon Jen Stewart Fueston is the author of two chapbooks, Latch (2019) and Visitations (2015), and…
Where the Eye Wants Coast by Linda Opyr
Review by Mindy Kronenberg In Where The Eye Wants Coast, her eighth collection of poetry, Linda Opyr presents poems…
Keeping Planes in the Air by Lori Desrosiers
Review by Lisa C. Taylor Lori Desrosiers’ third full-length poetry collection, Keeping Planes in the Air builds a narrative…
The Conquered Sits at the Bus Stop, Waiting by Veronica Montes
Review by Carla Panciera Veronica Montes’s The Conquered Sits at the Bus Stop, Waiting, winner of Black Lawrence Press’s…
A Place Remote by Gwen Goodkin
Review by Lisa C. Taylor A Place Remote by Gwen Goodkin is a debut short story collection populated by…
Birth of a Daughter: Poems by Samantha Kolber
Review by Janet McCann As a crone poet whose childbearing years are decades past and mostly forgotten, I found…
Mama Phife Represents by Cheryl Boyce-Taylor
Review by Nadia Wynter In Mama Phife Represents, Cheryl Boyce-Taylor, an island woman from Trinidad, a mother, wife, friend,…
Feeding Hour by Jessica Gigot
Reviewed by Suzanne Edison Jessica Gigot is a farmer, poet, teacher, and musician. She is the author of Flood…
Death, Desire, and Other Destinations by Tara Isabel Zambrano
Reviewed by Emily Webber Tara Isabel Zambrano’s short story collection Death, Desire, and Other Destinations delivers on what it…
The Machinery of Grace: Cento Poems by Patrice Boyer Claeys
Review by Cammy Thomas Patrice Boyer Claeys grew up in Pennsylvania, graduating from the University of Pennsylvania and the University…
Inside Out by Marjorie Maddox
Inside Out: Poems on Writing And Reading Poems by Marjorie Maddox Review by Tasslyn Magnusson How’s your COVID-19 writing going? Mine…
One Less River by Terry Blackhawk
Review by Michelle Wilbert One Less River by Terry Blackhawk—founding director (1995-2015) of Detroit’s InsideOut Literary Arts Project—is a…