Gently Read Literature, 2013 Spring Issue


Now that Spring is finally here, so is a new issue of Gently Read Literature. The Spring Issue has some brilliant poetry and fiction reviews as always as well as some interesting literary essays. This issue’s most interesting feature is a special section devoted to impressions, personal essays, and summaries from attendees to this year’s AWP Conference is Boston.

Take a look at the contents–

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Special Feature Essay on the AWP Conference Boston

Featuring Mary Biddinger, Heather Bowlan, Dianne Turgeon Richardson, Kris Bigalk, Mark Jenkins, & Suzanne Cope

 

Reviews & Essays

Taste and See: Michelle Ovalle Reviews Tropicalia by Emma Trelles

An Act of Witness: Tawnysha Greene Reviews Pamela Uschuk’s Wild in the Plaza of Memory

An Untroubled Poet: David Appelbaum Reviews Laurie Filipelli’s Elseplace

Unclear Dreams: Stacie Theis Reviews Patricia Goodwin’s When Two Women Die

What Remains: Ben Moeller-Gaa Reviews Kristina Marie Darling’s Melancholia (An Essay)

A Reach For Our Better Angels: Sophfronia Scott Reviews Robert Vivian’s Tall Grass Trilogy

The Mystery of Faith: Zachary Boissonneau Reviews Ira Sadoff’s True Faith

The Sestina and Ardor: An Essay by Marilyn Krysl

An Inner World: Maria Espinosa Reviews Paul Christensen’s Strangers in Paradise

Images of Water: Lisa Cole Reviews Edith Sodergran’s Salt Ballads as translated by Brooklyn Copeland

Finding One Thing in Another: Jeffrey DeLotto Reviews Anne Whitehouse’s The Refrain

Colors of Emotion and Mind: Jesse A. Lambertson Reviews Neil de la Flor’s An Elephant’s Memory of Blizzards

Die Now, Die Then: Jesse A. Lambertson Reviews Robert Day’s Where I am Now

Accordions in the Mind: Lisa Cole Reviews Juliet Cook’s Poisonous Beautyskull Lollipop

In the Midst of Anxiety: Victoria McCoy Reviews Matthew Cooperman’s Still: Of the Earth as the Ark which Does Not Move

Getting Away With It: Lisa Cole Reviews Listen to Her Heart by Amy Berkowitz

o louvre of the world, Poetry and Grammar: Emma Bolden Reviews Emily Carr’s 13 ways of Happily

Life in the Margins: Ben Moeller-Gaa Reviews Kristina Marie Darling’s Petrachan

One-on-One, Writer & Reader: Linda Lappin Interview with Thomas Kennedy

Love at the Speed of Sound: Sophfronia Scott on Elena Passarello’s Let Me Clear My Throat

The Drive to Connect: Stephen Page Ponders Adrienne Rich’s The Dream of a Common Language

Stolen Identity: Alyssa Jocson Reviews Eric Goodman’s Twelfth & Race

Literary Combat for History’s Collective Memory of the South before the American Civil War: An Essay by Forest Balderson

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Available Review Copies


Available Review Copies

Gently Read Literature has several review copies sent to us by publishers. If any of the titles below interest you and you would like the chance to review them, then please let us know (contact info is below). The book is yours to keep.

Contact: Daniel Casey, gentlyreadlit@gmail.com

Fiction

The Virgins, Pamela Erens, Tin House Books, 2013

The Vanishing Act, Mette Jakobsen, WW Norton, 2013

The Way North: Collected Upper Peninsula New Works, ed. Ron Riekki, Wayne State University Press, 2013

The Honey Thief, Najaf Mazari & Robert Hillman, Viking, 2013

Living Together: Short Stories and a Novella, Gloria Whelan, Wayne State University Press, 2013

Unchecked Savagery, Glenn Shaheen, Ricochet, 2012

The Exiles, Matthew Kirkpatrick, Ricochet, 2013

Bad Habitats, Alisa Slaughter, Gold Line Press, 2013

Penny, n., Madeline McDonnell, Rescue Press, 2013

The Era of Not Quite: Stories, Douglas Watson, BOA Editions, 2013

The Little Russian, Susan Sherman, Counterpoint, 2012

No One Said a Word, Paula Varsavsky, Wings Press, 2013

Lift Your Right Arm, Pelekinesis, 2013

Garbage Night at the Opera: Stories, Valerie Fioravanti, BkMk Press, 2012

Sinners and The Sea, Rebecca Kanner, Howard Books, 2013

Me Before You, Jojo Moyes, Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, 2012

All The Roads That Lead From Home: Stories, Anne Leigh Parrish, Press 53, 2011

King of the Class, Gila Green, Now or Never Publishing, 2013

Petrichor, David Scott Ewers, Pelekinesis, 2013

Janey, Richard Matturro, Livingston Press, 2012

Earplugs, Bram Riddlebarger, Livingston Press, 2012

The Tragedy of Fidel Castro, Joa Cerqueira, River Grove Books, 2013

The Pope Stories, George Guida, Bordighera Press, 2012

 

Poetry & Prose Poetry

End of the Sentimental Journey, Sarah Vap, Noemi Press, 2013

The First 4 Books of Sampson Starkweather, Sampson Starkweather, Birds LLC, 2013

Rise in the Fall, Ana Bozicevic, Birds LLC, 2013

Necessities, Christopher Merrill, White Pine Press, 2013

Magnolia & Lotus: Selected Poems of Hyesim, trans. Ian Haight & T’ae-Yong Ho, White Pine Press, 2012

Postage Due, Julie Marie Wade, White Pine Press, 2013

The Late Parade, Adam Fitzgerald, Liveright Publishing, 2013

Devotional Poems, Joe Hall, Black Ocean, 2013

Swamp Isthmus, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Black Ocean, 2013

The Hush Before the Animals Attack, Carol Matos, Main Street Rag, 2013

Forty-One Jane Doe’s, Carrie Olivia Adams, Ahsahta Press, 2013

The Year of the Rooster, Noah Eli Gordon, Ahsahta Press, 2013

Cloud vs. Cloud, Ethan Paquin, Ahsahta Press, 2013

Gimme Five, Philip Dacey, Blue Light Press, 2013

The Way North: Collected Upper Peninsula New Works, ed. Ron Riekki, Wayne State University Press, 2013

Earth Again, Chris Dombrowski, Wayne State University Press, 2013

Practicing to Walk Like a Heron, Jack Ridl, Wayne State University Press, 2013

The Traps, Lousie Mathias, Four Way Books, 2013

Small Porcelain Head, Allison Benis White, Four Way Books, 2013

Begging For It, Alex Dimitrov, Four Way Books, 2013

Hemming The Water, Yona Harvey, Four Way Books, 2013

Dear Weather Ghost, Melissa Ginsburg, Four Way Books, 2013

Holding Ground, Bruce Willard, Four Way Books, 2013

I Was Thinking of Beauty, Sydney Lea, Four Way Books, 2013

The Egg Mistress, Jessica Poli, Gold Line Press, 2013

Diorama of a People, Burning, Bradley Harrison, Ricochet, 2012

Maleficae, Emma Bolden, GenPop Books, 2013

Refuge, Adrie Kusserow, BOA Editions, 2013

Young Tambling, Kate Greenstreet, Ahsahta Press, 2013

Sonnets to the Humans, T. Zachary Cotler, Ahsahta Press, 2013

Dark Matter, Aase Berg, trans. Johannes Gorannson, Black Ocean, 2013

It’s Only TV Selected Poems 2005-2011, Roger Aplon, KMW Studio, 2012

Angles of Incidents, Jon Curley, Dos Madres Press, 2012

Homage to Etel Adnan, eds. Lindsey Boldt, Steve Dickison, Samantha Giles, The Post-Apollo Press, 2012

Earlier Lives, Sara Dailey, Dos Madres Press, 2012

Pinwheel, Marni Ludwig, New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2013

Book of Dog, Cleopatra Mathis, Sarabande Books, 2012

Aphoria, Jackie Clark, Brooklyn arts Press, 2013

Enigma and Light, David Mutschlecner, Ahsahta Press, 2012

The Answer to Each is the Same, Pam O’Brien, Dos Madres Press, 2012

Upper Level Disturbances, Kevin Goodan, Center for Literary Publishing, 2012

Ways We Hold, Jennifer Arin, Wings Press, 2012

Rudiments of Flight, Frances Hatfield, Wings Press, 2013

Western Practice, Stephen Motika, Alice James Books, 2012

To Embroider the Ground with Prayer, Teresa J. Scollon, Wayne State University Press, 2012

Letters and Found Poems of Edisa & Chloe, David Appelbaum, Codhill Press, 2012

Family Portrait: American Prose Poetry 1900-1950, ed. Robert Alexander, White Pine Press, 2012

Absent Receiver, Michael Flatt, Spring Gun Press, 2013

Little “g” God Grows Tired of Me, Aby Kaupang, Spring Gun Press, 2013

The Posture of Contour, James Belflower, Spring Gun Press, 2013

O Holy Insurgency, May Biddinger, Black Lawrence Press, 2013

Solecism, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Virtual Artists Collective, 2013

The Game of Boxes, Cathrine Barnett, Graywolf Press, 2012

Camouflage for the Neighborhood, Lorene Delany-Ullman, Firewheel Editions, 2012

Allegiance, Francine J. Harris, Wayne State University Press, 2012

Disposable Camera, Janet Foxman, University of Chicago Press, 2012

Two-Headed Nightingale, Shara Lessley, New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2012

Counterpart, Elizabeth Robinson, Ahsahta Press, 2012

The Light Between, Terry Blackhawk, Wayne State University Press, 2012

The Children, Paula Bohince, Saraband Books, 2012

The Cupboard Artist, Molly Tenenbaum, Floating Bridge Press, 2012

The Fraud of Good Sleep, Catherine Theis, Salt Publishing, 2011

Troy Unincorporated, Francesca Abbate, University of Chicago Press, 2012

Chinoiserie, Karen Rigby, Ahsahta Press, 2011

Instructions for Preparing Your Skin, Ariana Nadia Nash, Anhinga Press, 2013

Plume, Kathleen Flenniken, University of Washington Press, 2012

I Take Back the Sponge Cake, Loren Erdrich & Sierra Nelson, Rose Metal Press, 2012

Goat in the Snow, Emily Pettit, Birds LLC, 2012

Port of Call, Davida Singer, Plain View Press, 2012

Snakebit Kudzu, Murray Shugars, Dos Madres Press, 2013

Colony Collapse Disorder, Keith Flynn, Wings Press, 2013

Sudden Dog, Matthew Pennock, Alice James Books, 2012

Aerial, Bin Ramke, Omnidawn, 2011

Paradise Indiana, Bruce Snider, Pleiades Press, 2012

Early/Late New & Selected Poems, Philip Fried, Salmon Poetry, 2011

Bewilderment, David Ferry, University of Chicago Press, 2012

Common Time, Chris Pusateri, Steerage Press, 2012

Pink Thunder, Michael Zapruder, Black Ocean, 2012

Large White House Speaking, Mark Irwin, New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2013

Of Embodies, Philip Sorenson, Rescue Press, 2012

Raptor, Andrew Feld, University of Chicago Press, 2012

But Our Princess is in Another Castle, B.J. Best, Rose Metal Press, 2013

Track This, Stephen Bett, BlazeVOX [books], 2010

Blood, Shane McCrae, Noemi Press, 2013

Dear Hero, Jason McCall, Marsh Hawk Press, 2013

Tracks, Logan Ryan Smith, Ypolita Press, 2009

Bug House, Logan Ryan Smith, Mission Cleaners Books, 2013

The Most Natural Thing, David Keplinger, New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2013

Injecting Dreams Into Cows, Jessy Randall, Red Hen Press, 2012

Easy Math, Lauren Shapiro, Sarabande Books, 2013

Imperfect Prayers, Richard Carr, Steel Toe Books, 2012

Experiments I should Like Tried At My Own Death, Caryl Pagel, Factory Hollow Books, 2012

The Organ Builder, Austin MacRae, Dos Madres Press, 2012

Manhater, Danielle Pafunda, Dusie Press, 2012

I Was There For Your Somniloquy, Kelli Anne Noftle, Omnidawn, 2011

Gently Read Literature, 2013 Winter Issue

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Gently Read Literature, 2013 Winter Issue


Well, it’s here in time for the new year–the first subscription-based issue of Gently Read Literature. GRL’s 2013 Winter Issue is packed with quality, in-depth reviews and essays.

 Subscribe & get your copy today! A year-long subscription to Gently Read Literature (3 issues) is $10 & will be delivered to you as a PDF. Via PayPal ( https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/make-online-payments ) to the email address gentlyreadlit@ymail.com rr mail a check payble to Daniel Casey to

Daniel Casey

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Rogers, MN 55374

 

Table of Contents

 

Sigh Eternally: CL Bledsoe on Adam Clay’s poetry collection “A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World”

A Beginning For an Author Who Obviously Isn’t a Beginner: David Atkinson on Molly Ringwald’s novel “When It Happens To You”

Cycles of Time, Notes to a Tune: Kelly Lydick on Sandy Florian’s poetry collection “Prelude to Air from Water”

The Horse Doesn’t Always Flow: Nicole Contreras on Leslie Scalapino’s hybrid work “Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows”

Muddled & Luscious Residue: Todd McCarty on Ryan Teitman’s poetry collection “Litany for the City”

Ne’er-Do-Wells Who Plunder: CL Bledsoe on Dan Boehl’s poetry collection “Kings of the Fucking Sea”

Wild Prospecting: CL Bledsoe on Daniel Pyne’s novel “A Hole in the Ground Owned by a Liar”

More Language, More Linkages, More Minds, More Memes: Paula Koneazny on Laura Solomon’s poetry collection “The Hermit”

Kurt Brown’s The Pictorial Impulse: The Poem as Camera and Brush

Tom Bradley’s Foreword to the New Edition of My Hands Were Clean

The Friendly Highbrow: Heather Lang on Matthew Zapruder’s poetry collection “Come On All You Ghosts”

The Lyric Mode: Christopher Schaeffer on Dorothy Lasky’s poetry collection “Thunderbird”

Don’t Doubt Language: Jennifer Jean on Elain Equi’s poetry collection “Click & Clone”

The Transvaluated Body: Gary Sloboda on Christian Hawkey poetry collection “Citizen Of”

The Perfect and The Imperfect: Glenda Burgess on Gretchen Henderson’s novel “The House Enters the Street”

Smashing the Masks: Michelle Ovalle on Amal al-Jabouri’s “Hagar Before the Occupation/Hagar After the Occupation”

Fluid Ease: Ann E. Michael on Elaine Terranova’s poetry collection “Dames Rocket”

What is Polish Poetry Like Today?: Mike Walker on Jacek Gutorow’s poetry collection “The Folding Star”

Deep Family in the High North: Kirsten Sworts on Melinda Moustakis’s short story collection “Bear Down Bear North”

Longing: Sara Habein on Kirsten Scott’s novel “Motherlunge”

Rural Gothic Literature: Casey Pycior on Jon Boilard’s novel “A River Closely Watched”

Flouting the Rules: Garry Craig Powell on Tom Williams’s novella “The Mimic’s Own Voice”

A Reckoning on the River:  Sophfronia Scott on Robert Vivian’s “Water and Abandon”

Gently Read Literature’s Top Books Reviewed in 2012: Fiction


This week I listed Gently Read Literature’s Top Book Reviews 2012 for Poetry, so now I give you the Top Book Reviews 2012 for Fiction.

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Starcherone Books released a brilliant fiction anthology, 30 Under 30, it was reviewed by Joe Sullivan in the February Issue

Jaime Boler reviewed Christopher Bollen’s novel Lightning People from Soft Skull Press in the March Issue

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Mike Young’s story collection Look, Look Feathers! from Word Riot Press was reviewed in the May Issue by Troy Weaver

In the Summer Issue, Emma Kate Tsai reviewed Jim Shepard’s Master of Miniatures from Solid Objects

Master of Miniatures

Also in the Summer Issue, Kelly Lydick reviewed They Could No Longer Contain Themselves a collection of five novellas from five different authors (Elizabeth J. Colen, John Jodzio, Tim Jones-Yelvington, Sean Lovelace, and Mary Miller) published by Rose Metal Press

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Of course, I want to hear your thoughts & opinions about what the best books were for 2012. Make sure you get your subscription in for the upcoming Winter Issue which will be published in January and will feature reviews of the following:

Sigh Eternally: CL Bledsoe on Adam Clay’s poetry collection “A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World”

A Beginning For an Author Who Obviously Isn’t a Beginner: David Atkinson on Molly Ringwald’s novel “When It Happens To You”

Cycles of Time, Notes to a Tune: Kelly Lydick on Sandy Florian’s poetry collection “Prelude to Air from Water”

The Horse Doesn’t Always Flow: Nicole Contreras on Leslie Scalapino’s hybrid work “Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows”

Muddled & Luscious Residue: Todd McCarty on Ryan Teitman’s poetry collection “Litany for the City”

Ne’er-Do-Wells Who Plunder: CL Bledsoe on Dan Boehl’s poetry collection “Kings of the Fucking Sea”

Wild Prospecting: CL Bledsoe on Daniel Pyne’s novel “A Hole in the Ground Owned by a Liar”

More Language, More Linkages, More Minds, More Memes: Paula Koneazny on Laura Solomon’s poetry collection “The Hermit”

Kurt Brown’s The Pictorial Impulse: The Poem as Camera and Brush

Tom Bradley’s Foreword to the New Edition of My Hands Were Clean

The Friendly Highbrow: Heather Lang on Matthew Zapruder’s poetry collection “Come On All You Ghosts”

The Lyric Mode: Christopher Schaeffer on Dorothy Lasky’s poetry collection “Thunderbird”

Don’t Doubt Language: Jennifer Jean on Elain Equi’s poetry collection “Click & Clone”

The Transvaluated Body: Gary Sloboda on Christian Hawkey poetry collection “Citizen Of”

The Perfect and The Imperfect: Glenda Burgess on Gretchen Henderson’s novel “The House Enters the Street”

Smashing the Masks: Michelle Ovalle on Amal al-Jabouri’s “Hagar Before the Occupation/Hagar After the Occupation”

Fluid Ease: Ann E. Michael on Elaine Terranova’s poetry collection “Dames Rocket”

What is Polish Poetry Like Today?: Mike Walker on Jacek Gutorow’s poetry collection “The Folding Star”

Deep Family in the High North: Kirsten Sworts on Melinda Moustakis’s short story collection “Bear Down Bear North”

Longing: Sara Habein on Kirsten Scott’s novel “Motherlunge”

Rural Gothic Literature: Casey Pycior on Jon Boilard’s novel “A River Closely Watched”

Flouting the Rules: Garry Craig Powell on Tom Williams’s novella “The Mimic’s Own Voice”

A Reckoning on the River:  Sophfronia Scott on Robert Vivian’s “Water and Abandon”

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Gently Read Literature’s Top Books Reviewed in 2012: Poetry


Lists are fun and rankings are meaningless. Having said that, we all love end of the year “Best Of”s. In this spirit, I give you all Gently Read Literature’s Editor’s Choice Best Books Reviewed 2012. So here are my five favorite poetry collections reviewed in GRL over 2012.

From the January Issue, Joshua Harmon’s “Le Spleen de Poughkeepsie” reviewed by Poppy Samuels

Order it from the University of Akron Press

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From the February Issue, Matthew Guenette’s “American Busboy” reviewed by Joe Sullivan

Order it from the University of Akron Press

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I Want to Make You Safe

From the March Issue, Amy King’s “I Want to Make You Safe” reviewed by Anne Boyer

Find Out More at Litmus Press

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The Body is a Little Gilded Cage: A Story in Letters and Fragments

From the April Issue, Kristina Marie Darling’s “The Body is a Little Gilded Cage” reviewed by Wynn Yarbrough

Find Out More at Gold Wake Press

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From the May Issue, Melissa Broder’s “When You Say One Thing But Mean Your Mother” reviewed by Victoria Lynne McCoy

Find Out More at Small Press Distribution

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Of course, I want to hear your thoughts & opinions about what the best books were for 2012. Check out the rest of Gently Read Literature, then get your subscription in for the upcoming Winter Issue which will be published in January and will feature reviews of the following:

Sigh Eternally: CL Bledsoe on Adam Clay’s poetry collection “A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World”

A Beginning For an Author Who Obviously Isn’t a Beginner: David Atkinson on Molly Ringwald’s novel “When It Happens To You”

Cycles of Time, Notes to a Tune: Kelly Lydick on Sandy Florian’s poetry collection “Prelude to Air from Water”

The Horse Doesn’t Always Flow: Nicole Contreras on Leslie Scalapino’s hybrid work “Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows”

Muddled & Luscious Residue: Todd McCarty on Ryan Teitman’s poetry collection “Litany for the City”

Ne’er-Do-Wells Who Plunder: CL Bledsoe on Dan Boehl’s poetry collection “Kings of the Fucking Sea”

Wild Prospecting: CL Bledsoe on Daniel Pyne’s novel “A Hole in the Ground Owned by a Liar”

More Language, More Linkages, More Minds, More Memes: Paula Koneazny on Laura Solomon’s poetry collection “The Hermit”

Kurt Brown’s The Pictorial Impulse: The Poem as Camera and Brush

Tom Bradley’s Foreword to the New Edition of My Hands Were Clean

The Friendly Highbrow: Heather Lang on Matthew Zapruder’s poetry collection “Come On All You Ghosts”

The Lyric Mode: Christopher Schaeffer on Dorothy Lasky’s poetry collection “Thunderbird”

Don’t Doubt Language: Jennifer Jean on Elain Equi’s poetry collection “Click & Clone”

The Transvaluated Body: Gary Sloboda on Christian Hawkey poetry collection “Citizen Of”

The Perfect and The Imperfect: Glenda Burgess on Gretchen Henderson’s novel “The House Enters the Street”

Smashing the Masks: Michelle Ovalle on Amal al-Jabouri’s “Hagar Before the Occupation/Hagar After the Occupation”

Fluid Ease: Ann E. Michael on Elaine Terranova’s poetry collection “Dames Rocket”

What is Polish Poetry Like Today?: Mike Walker on Jacek Gutorow’s poetry collection “The Folding Star”

Deep Family in the High North: Kirsten Sworts on Melinda Moustakis’s short story collection “Bear Down Bear North”

Longing: Sara Habein on Kirsten Scott’s novel “Motherlunge”

Rural Gothic Literature: Casey Pycior on Jon Boilard’s novel “A River Closely Watched”

Flouting the Rules: Garry Craig Powell on Tom Williams’s novella “The Mimic’s Own Voice”

A Reckoning on the River:  Sophfronia Scott on Robert Vivian’s “Water and Abandon”

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Preview the Winter Issue of Gently Read Literature & Subscribe Today


The Winter Issue of Gently Read Literature will be released in January.

That gives you just a month and half left to get your subscription in–a year-long subscription to Gently Read Literature (3 issues) is $10 & will be delivered to you as a downloadable and printable PDF.

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Take a look at the some of the poetry & fiction that will be reviewed in the Winter Issue:

 

Todd McCarty on Ryan Teitman’s poetry collection Litany for the City from BOA Editions

Glenda Burgess on Gretchen Henderson’s novel The House Enters the Street from Starcherone Books

Christopher Schaeffer on Dorothy Lasky’s poetry collection Thunderbird from Wave Books

Gary Sloboda on Christian Hawkey’s poetry collection Citizen Of from Wave Books

David Atkinson on Molly Ringwald’s novel When It Happens to You from It Books/HarperCollins

Kurt Brown’s essay “The Pictorial Impulse in Poetry”

Heather Lang on Matthew Zapruder’s poetry collection Come On All You Ghosts from Copper Canyon Press

Jennifer Jean on Elain Equi’s poetry collection Click & Clone from Coffee House Press

Michelle Ovalle on Amal al-Jabouri’s poetry collection Hagar Before the Occupation/Hagar After the Occupation from Alice James Books

Ann E. Michael on Elaine Terranova’s poetry collection Dames Rocket from Penstroke Press

Mike Walker on Jacek Gutorow’s collection The Folding Star and Other Poems from BOA Editions

Kirsten Sworts on Melinda Moustakis’s short story collection Bear Down Bear North from University of Georgia Press

Kelly Lydick on Sandy Florian’s poetry/fiction hybrid Prelude to Air from Water from Elixir Press

Paula Koneazny on Laura Solomon’s poetry collection The Hermit from Ugly Duckling Presse

Cort Bledsoe on Adam Clay’s poetry collection A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World from Milkweed Editions

And on Dan Boehl’s poetry collection Kings of the Fucking Sea from Birds, LLC

And on Daniel Pyne’s novel A Hole in the Ground Owned by a Liar from Counterpoint

Tom Bradley’s foreword to the new edition of My Hands Were Clean

Nicole Contreras on Leslie Scalapino’s poetry/fiction hybrid Floats Horse-Floats or Horse-Flows from Starcherone Books