Books like people can come into our lives through chance or circumstance or with purpose and meaning. In either case, they challenge us...

Maud Lavin’s latest chapbook Silences, Ohio  (Cowboy Jamboree Press) is set squarely in the Midwest, a place I’ve spent very little time....

When I first got the chance to check out Amy Marques’ Parts , I had no expectations. I knew it was a poetry collection. And I knew it was...

In Maurice Berger’s classic White Lies , part memoir, part cultural analysis, he writes about “disrupting our complacent fantasy that our...

I have a terrible time picking my favorite anything. What’s your favorite movie? Favorite band/singer? I have no clue. I could never pick...

The title of Joni Karen Caggiano’s powerful poetry collection, One Petal at a Time, makes me recall what I used to say as a child while...

Recount and Prophesy by Alexandra Fössinger is sort of a literary triptych as it is made up of three distinct parts. And while most...

In the reviews I’ve done thus far, I’ve spotlighted indie authors or debut publications. E Ethelbert Miller is not in that category. A...

I read novels for so many reasons including to travel, to learn, to think, to escape, to immerse myself in the lives of characters, and...

“So many things, so many experiences, seem to be about the breaking of a woman, and not the mending of her.” This line from “At My...

“Spring break meant a trip south of Atlanta to Georgia’s fat bottom.” When I finished Ra’Niqua Lee’s collection of flash stories, For...

“They gave Jada an ultimatum: do the work or get kicked out. Ayanna delivered the news during indie. ‘You’re here to face what happened,...

Among the many striking elements of Jane Ayres’ rich, multi-faceted poetry, none is more apparent than her use of imagery, the intricate...

While reading through A.R. Williams’ debut collection A Funeral in the Wild: Poems, I became haunted by the concept of a sense of place:...

In Steady, Anne Whitehouse’s new poetry collection, the natural world takes on the role of a main character, in a manner of speaking....

Generally speaking, two things are true: the first is that, more often than not, reading poetry is only an incidentally tailored...

Procrastination can sometimes pay off. I had on my list of things to do, to read the book of poetry “Apprenticed to the Night” by...

I sat, criss-cross applesauce on my back deck in the direct sunlight, waiting for that hint of inspiration to come down from the heavens...

Three by Tuite is a battle cry, among many other things. As the title suggests, Meg Tuite has broken this brilliant bone in three places:...

The tragedy of touch is a multi-sensory dive into the self, a collection of poems presented across a range of formats that invites the...