Care, from carry: as happens mysteriously in utero; from what was once her single-selfed existence, the poet assumes the burdens of maternity—a carrier‘s nine-month care... Read More

A troubled girl learns how to be a stable, contented woman in Lisa Russ Spaar’s novel "Paradise Close". After spending six months in a psychiatric institution,... Read More

An associate professor of English at Rhodes College, Caki Wilkinson lives in Memphis, Tennessee. She is the author of two other collections, Circles Where the Head Should Be and... Read More

Filled with reminders of human fragility, but still exalting life in vigorous tones, Sarah Matthes’s debut poetry collection, "Town Crier", is a momentous introduction to a... Read More

Molly McCully Brown’s collection of essays, Places I’ve Taken My Body, describes what it’s like to live in a body that is often classified as disabled. Brown relates what... Read More

In the opening scene of Cynthia Marie Hoffman’s "Call Me When You Want to Talk about the Tombstones", the author and her mother comb Rose Hill Cemetery in Mt. Carmel,... Read More

This collection is striking in the way each individual piece feels essential to the whole, allowing for discovery, rediscovery, and the crafting of a new home for the soul.... Read More

Evoking masculine, dangerously intimate, polished surfaces, "Straight Razor" reveals libidinous encounters, elegies, and satires on careerism in poetry. San Francisco-based... Read More

The personal reflections of Turkish novelist Nazim Hikmet reach poetic heights in this memoir of a political agitator and his exile. If history has any great benefit to human... Read More

In “Would I Be Able to Stand,” the first poem of Laura Cronk’s collection, a woman tests the boundaries, real and imagined, of herself. “Would I be able to stand / a... Read More

Sidney Wade could easily be speaking of herself when she writes about a turtle that “precisely / balances her load / of hungry bone on / four dactylic feet.” These lines end... Read More