Familiar Shapes Entering the Body Raw and Undigested

Adam Fitzgerald’s ‘George Washington’ memorializes the author’s childhood in a stripmall America that is at once instantly familiar and arrestingly strange.

Microreview: Rachel Richardson, Copperhead

Leaning into silence.

Song for Sonoma

Floating World

If a travelogue were to arrive as writing, it might read like Maureen N. McLane’s two full-length collections of poems, Same Life and World Enough.

Body of Work

Experiments in life and poetic form.

Review: Letters to a Stranger

By Thomas James.

Landmarks

Two collections by Kathleen Jamie.

Review: Radiant Lyre

: Essays on Lyric Poetry

Microreview: Dean Young, Embryoyo

Poems that ricochet like pinballs with their own eclectic brand of kinesis.

Microreview: Kathy Graber, Correspondence

Poems that move from Heroditus to plastic snap beads, from Kafka to empty storage containers.

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