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To Live Forever

by Katherine Woods

About everyday sources of confusion and comfort, "To Live Forever" is a deeply felt poetry collection. Lexi Joann’s form-experimental poetry collection "To Live Forever" is about heartbreak, new love, and the ways people grow through... Read More

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A Soft, Stunned Silence

by Michele Sharpe

Sound’s absence is lauded as powerful in the musing poetry collection "A Soft, Stunned Silence". David Moore’s contemplative poetry collection "A Soft, Stunned Silence" is about the relationships between sounds and shadows. Logical... Read More

Book Review

Entered Some Aliens

by Matt Sutherland

You can lead a queer Asian American to the southern US (including Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Florida), but it takes an epiphany-laced collection of poems to understand why Siew Hii stayed. One, an extraordinary ability to... Read More

Book Review

The Size of Your Joy

by Matt Sutherland

Poets are cheek turners, reliably willing to face grief and pain at untenable levels and then ask for more. Poets are coat turners, inexplicably willing to renounce and swerve just as the path seems laid. In her debut collection, Elise... Read More

Book Review

Climbing

by Danielle Ballantyne

A poem by renowned twentieth-century poet Amy Lowell receives illustrative treatment in this picture book that transforms climbing a tree into a whimsical adventure. As a girl climbs an apple tree, the branches, blossoms, and fruit grow... Read More

Book Review

Bloodletting a Butterfly

by Michele Sharpe

"Bloodletting a Butterfly" is an intricate narrative poetry collection that speaks to the trauma of witnessing human pain. Alec B. Hood’s gothic poetry collection "Bloodletting a Butterfly" probes experiences of trauma. In striking... Read More

Book Review

Sky Tongued Back with Light

by Rebecca Foster

In Sébastien Luc Butler’s elegant chapbook "Sky Tongued Back with Light", art and nature symbolize conflicted feelings about queerness, religion, and grief. The line “from answer to question, question / to answer” encapsulates the... Read More

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