Demolition in the Tropics by Rogan Kelly (review by Alina Stefanescu)
Rogan Kelly. Demolition in the Tropics. Lewisburg, PA: Seven Kitchens Press, 2019. 28 pages. $9.00. Some readers expect to be punched in the gut repeatedly. Demolition in the Tropics is not for them. Rogan Kelly's poetic line is wistful, impressionistic, similar to...
Death, Desire and Other Destinations by Tara Isabel Zambrano (review by Dan Crawley)
Tara Isabel Zambrano’s full-length flash collection, Death, Desire, and Other Destinations (Okay Donkey Press, 2020), illuminates, enchants. I’m awestruck with Zambrano’s effortless talent, her swings from stark realism to inventive magic realism. She is...
Pat Foran: My Fave Five
Series Curator: Jonathan Cardew June Selector: Pat Foran What’s rare, what’s bright, what’s new? This is what we ask a new writer every month in search of the best hybrid, poetry, and flash writing from the previous month. In this edition, we catch up with Pat Foran!...
Directory by Christopher Linforth (review by Levi Andrew Noe)
Sauteing your Sense of Self We are at a loss with how to describe this book in any cumulative, definitive way. We don’t want to summarize or euphemize or categorize a book that was not built for “I”s (see what we did there?). So we will just say that the...
Bending Genres Anthology (review by Michael Gillan Maxwell)
Book Review The Bending Genres Anthology - 2018/2019 2020 Bending Genres Press 231 pages Editors: Robert Vaughan (EIC), Meg Tuite (Fiction Editor), Len Kuntz (Fiction Editor), Jessica Mehta (poetry Editor); Adam Robinson (Book Design and Cover...
Leonora Desar: My Fave Five
What’s rare, what’s bright, what’s new? This is what we ask a new writer every month in search of the best hybrid, poetry, and flash writing…
This is a superhero story
This is a superhero story. It’s about a kid who is growing up in Hollywood. He lives alone with his mother in an apartment that was once a cheap motel. She cleans houses in Whitley Heights and gets up early and comes home tired, so he has most of his time to himself....
Collective Gravities by Chloe N. Clark (review by Erin Schmiel)
Something About Shadows and Parallel Universes: A Review of Collected Gravities. Chloe Clark’s books include The Science of Unvanishing Objects, Your Strange Fortune and Under My Tongue. Her work has also appeared in Apex, Hobart, Uncanny and Drunken Boat. Clark’s...
Beauty by Christina Chiu (review by Haley Papa)
Prior to writing Beauty, Christina Chiu could previously be seen published in Tin House, The New Guard Literary Review, Washington Square, World Wide Writers, and elsewhere. She won the Asian American Literary Award for Troublemaker, which was also...
Bury Me In The Sky by Sara Comito (review by Luke Johnson)
Comito’s Honey If there's one thing (of many) I've learned, from reading Sara Comito's "Bury Me in the Sky," it's this: she will not spare her reader. Will not spare them both heartache and beauty. These poems swagger with a razor sharp sense of the body, while...
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