Gently Read Literature’s first issue of 2014 is out now.
The Winter 2014 issue includes fiction reviews of authors such as Peter Cherches, Kirby Gann, Pamela Erens, Bonnie ZoBell, George Guida, Valerie Fioravanti, Adam Berlin, Luanne Rice, Bruce Holbert, Linda Lappin, and Juliet Marillier.
As well as poetry reviews of collections by Caryl Pagel, Emma Bolden, Elizabeth Robinson, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Bill Yarrow, Frances Hatfield, John Gosslee, Marjorie Maddox, Gerald Fleming, Kristina Marie Darling, Mary Biddinger, Terry Blackhawk, francine j. harris, Jamie Sharpe, Alex Dimitrov, Petrosino, Carrie Olivia Adams, Jeffery Pethybridge, Julie Marie Wade, and Olivia Stiffler.
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Contents
4—Colleen Abel on Caryl Pagel’s Experiments I Should Like Tried At My Own Death
6—Christina M. Rau on Emma Bolden’s poetry collection Maleficae
10—Amy Pence on reading On Ghosts by Elizabeth Robinson
12—Michael Kasper reviews the novel Lift Your Right Arm by Peter Cherches
15—Making Music from the Badlands of Horror Vacui: Virginia Konchan reviews Joshua Marie Wilkinson’s Swamp Isthmus
18—Parth Vasa reviews Kirby Gann’s novel Ghosting
21—David Appelbaum on Bill Yarrow’s Pointed Sentences
24—Ed Davis reviews the novel The Virgins by Pamela Erens
27—Robin Martin reviews Bonnie ZoBell’s short stories in The Whack Job Girls
30—Fred Misurella reviews George Guida’s short fictions in The Pope Stories
32—Bonnie ZoBell reviews Valerie Fioravanti’s short story collection Garbage Night at the Opera
35—Grace Curtis reviews Frances Hatfield’s poetry collection Rudiments of Flight
37—Robin Martin reviews Adam Berlin’s novel The Number of Missing
40—Christina M. Rau reviews John Gosslee’s Blitzkrieg
43—David Berridge reviews the anthology Homage to Etal Adnan
51—Brief Alphabet of Grief: Carolyn Perry Reviews Local News from Someplace Else by Marjorie Maddox
56—Deborah Bogen reviews Gerald Fleming’s prose poetry collection The Choreographer
59—Sally Deskins on Kristina Marie Darling’s VOW
61—An Insurgency of Language: Stacia M. Fleegal’s review of Mary Biddinger’s poetry collection O Holy Insurgency
63—Suzanne Hard on Luanne Rice’s novel The Lemon Orchard
65—Margaret Rozga reviews Terry Blackhawk’s poetry collection The Light Between
68—Jonterri Gadson reviews allegiance by francine j. harris
71—Emilie Esther-Ann Schnabel reviews Animal Husbandry Today by Jamie Sharpe
73—Samantha Duncan reviews Alex Dimitrov’s poetry collection Begging for It
75—Sing a Song of Darkness: Katherine Yets on Hymn for the Black Terrific by Kiki Petrosino
78—Help Me Solve a Mystery, Who is Who and Where are We?: Katherine Yets on Carrie Olivia Adams’ Forty-One Jane Doe’s
82—The Poem is a Ritual that Conceals: C. Kubasta reviews Jeffrey Pethybridge’s Striven, the Bright Treatise
85—Acceptance Inside an Envelope: Katherine Yets reviews of Julie Marie Wade’s poetry collection Postage Due
88—Olivia Stiffler’s poetry collection Otherwise, We Are Safe reviewed by Margaret Rozga
92—Twenty Poets Talking: Robert Archambeau reviews the anthology Password Primeval
95—Channeling the Prose Poem’s Ancestry: Steven Wingate reviews the anthology Family Portrait: American Prose Poetry
98—James Wharton reviews Bruce Holbert’s novel Lonesome Animals
101—Shaina Mugan reviews Linda Lappin’s Signatures in Stone
103—Things Redefined: Ayesha Ali Reviews Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier
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