Review: This Elegance by Derrick Austin Reviewed by Alexis Soto BOA Editions. 2026. 85 pages. In a world where the normalcy of life is, at best, shaky and unpredictable, creatives [...]

Review: Sucker Punch: Essays by Scaachi Koul Reviewed by Makenzie Stuart St. Martin's Press. 2025. 254 pages. What are the things that you whisper about behind closed doors? The things [...]

Review: Losing Music by John Cotter Review by Gretchen Walsh Milkweed Editions. 2024. 304 pages. When I consider what it means to write about chronic illness—specifically to write about those [...]

Review: fox woman get out! by India Lena González Reviewed by Laura Yeck BOA Editions. 2023. 96 pages. India Lena González’s debut collection, fox woman get out!, is a striking [...]

Review: You Are Here: Poetry and the Natural World, edited by Ada Limón Reviewed by Daniel DeVaughn Milkweed Editions. 2024. 176 pages. It’s all too easy nowadays to forget how [...]

Review: Muscadine by A. H. Jerriod Avant Reviewed by Dan DeVaughn Four Way Books, 2023. 81 pages. The muscadine is an unusual fruit. Native to the Southeastern United States, it [...]

Review: Holy American Burnout! by Sean Enfield Reviewed by Anna Chotlos Split/Lip Press. 2023. 174 pages. Like essayists, teachers must also craft personas, transforming the unwieldly complexity of the self [...]

Review: Echo and Critique: Poetry and the Clichés of Public Speech by Florian Gargaillo Reviewed by James Davis Louisiana State University Press. 2023. 198 pages. “What’s so bad about clichés?” [...]

Review: The Sorrows of Others by Ada Zhang Reviewed by Colleen Mayo A Public Space Books. 2023. 141 pages. To a peruser of titles, The Sorrows of Others might suggest [...]

Review: Out of Order by Alexis Sears Reviewed by James Davis Autumn House Press. 2022. 104 pages. The title page of Alexis Sears’s debut poetry collection, Out of Order, looks [...]