Reviews
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The Formal Problem of Rape: On Jamie Hood’s Trauma Plot
For the last third of her memoir, Trauma Plot, Jamie Hood is in therapy. This fifth and final section of…
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Book Review: “Cleaving the Clouds”
Margaret Anne Kean’s chapbook, Cleaving the Clouds, is a record-keeping, an elegy, and a deep investigation of grief written in…
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Album Review: “I Have Some Thoughts”
I’m old now. It’s been many years since I first realized I was not like other people. That realization was…
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Book Review: “Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story”
“One definition of living might be the perpetual swapping of story lines,” Leslie Jamison writes. “We trade in the scripts…
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Book Review: “Songs of Seven Days”
If “Songs of Seven Days” is your first poetic encounter with this writer, you might be forgiven if you’d quickly…
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Book Review: “Immigrant Prodigal Daughter”
There’s a tender fragility and quiet strength woven into the words of each poem in Lucia Cherciu’s Immigrant Prodigal Daughter,…
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Book Review: “Lost in Obscurity and Other Stories”
Lost in Obscurity and Other Stories by Debasish Mishra (2022) is both touching and bittersweet. This book is not just…
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Book Review: “Afterparties: Stories”
By now, most readers of Anthony Veasna So’s 2021 Afterparties know he died of a drug overdose shortly before his…
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Album Review: “Dead Calm”
Lord Almighty, you can’t take the country out of this boy (not that he himself hasn’t tried). New Zealand-born, Texas-bred…
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Album Review: “Rancho Shalom”, “Lucky Nights”, “Ghost Approaches”
World, meet Evan Kertman. His debut album, Rancho Shalom (Perpetual Doom), invites the listener out onto the back patio to bask in…