Fall 2019 Issue
Featuring work by Mike Wilson, Yerra Sugarman, Gillian Osborne, Kate Levin, Chris Stuck, Matthew Porto, Holli Carrell, an interview with Emily Jungmin Yoon, art by Susanna Kwan, and more!
Grackles Review Little Women
American Literary Review presents Grackles: Two editorial staffers squawk over a film.
A Review of Staten Island Stories by Claire Jimenez
Claire Jimenez’s debut collection, Staten Island Stories, skillfully balances the global with the local, the particularity of place, alongside the universally human.
Pushcart Prize Nominees
Congrats and good luck to all of our 2019 Pushcart Prize Nominees!
A Review of Cyborg Detective: Poems by Jillian Weise
About a third of the way into Jillian Weise’s latest book of poems, Cyborg Detective, one of her speakers asks, “And did you get it? That part you wanted.”
Best of the Net Nominees
Congrats and good luck to all of our 2019 Best of the Net Nominees!
Reaching for Epiphanies: An Interview with John McCarthy
John McCarthy’s latest book, Scared Violent Like Horses, ruminates on growing up lower class in the Midwest and coping with family traumas. The stories of a hardscrabble life dominated by silos and switchgrass are told with an impressive tenderness that contrasts starkly with their often-painful subjects. Particularly striking are those [...]
Best New Poets Nominees
Congratulations and good luck to our nominees for Best New Poets! Katie Schmid, “Apple Glory” Katherine Stingley, “A Daughter is a Pilgrim”
A Review of Sweet & Low: Stories by Nick White
Time after time in Nick White’s second book, Sweet and Low, characters confront dilemmas they “haven’t yet found a language for.” In “Cottonmouth, Trapjaw, Water Moccasin” a solitary bigot is crushed underneath a wrecked lawnmower, bellowing impotently knowing “no one would hear him,” out alone in the country, abandoned by a [...]
Too Much of a Good Thing is Wonderful: An Interview with Dorothy Chan
...splitting time between writing, editing, teaching, and all things poetic is something Chan sees as a dream life, a fantasy come true. This idea–the true life fantasy–is something that often surfaces in her poetry whether that is creating the perfect array of dishes for a meal or the fetishization of [...]