Chet’la Sebree, in her premier collection, Mistress, offers an astonishing parallel between the 19th and 21st-century woman and the challenges of navigating Black womanhood at the intersection of men, sexuality,…
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Poetry
À Propos Ravens The Flying Raven, Édouard Manet, Ex Libris for The Raven (Le Corbeau) by Edgar Allan Poe, French Edition, Trans. Stéphane Mallarmé, (1875) You take the folding chair…
Self-Reflection Apparently, St. Margaret was so pious that she was indigestible when the dragon tried to swallow her. The dragon didn’t want her, was repelled by her, and saw her…
The Art of Disorder in Heidi Seaborn’s Give a Girl Chaos (see what she can do) by Michelle Bitting January 28, 2019 One must still have chaos in oneself to…
Life in Suspension / La Vie Suspendue by Hélène Cardona Salmon Press, 2016 Reviewed by Alison Williams If a purpose of poetry is to transcend, then Hélène Cardona’s…
xamissa by Henk Rossouw Fordham University Press Reviewed by Keenan Colditz “In the city begin and begin again sleep’s graffiti” —Henk Rossouw xamissa, by Henk Rossouw, is a book length…
Fish Boy by John Gosslee Nomadic Press, 2018 Reviewed by Sam Leon In Fish Boy, John Gosslee has created a tiny contemporary art museum for exploring the relationship between him…
Lessons in Camouflage by Martin Ott C&R Press, 2018 Reviewed by Adam Crittenden When I received my copy of Martin Ott’s Lessons in Camouflage, I was first intrigued by…
Louder than Hearts by Zeina Hashem Beck Bauhan Publishing, LLC, 2017 In Il Postino, the 1994 film depicting Chilean poet Pablo Neruda’s exile in Italy and his subsequent friendship…
Before the Drought by Margo Berdeshevsky Glass Lyre Press, 2017, $17 ISBN-13: 978-1941783399 Reviewed by Tamaria del Rio In a way that mimics life, Margo Berdeshevsky’s Before the Drought never…