Griswold grapples with a world that is fracturing at its foundation. In this series of poems, all at once dark. humorous and questioning, the author moves from the familiar to the unjust to hope with a keen eye...

How does the world of book reviews work?

Choi explores queer, Asian American femininity through the lens of robots, cyborgs, and artificial intelligence...

Kahlil Gibran’s 1923 The Prophet is book that’s changed people’s lives...

Klaver reminds us that no matter the digital distance between us we are never quite alone...

Joyce Ashuntantang talks about her experiences as a traveler and a poet, from her childhood Cameroon to her years studying in Great Britain and the United States...

"Brute" is a stunning collection of poetry that navigates the dark corridors of trauma found at the end of an abusive relationship...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

Madison seamlessly bridges the gap between past and present while remaining grounded in the here and now...

Davitt explores the intersections of myth, science, and humanity through her beautifully accessible poems...

Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi is an African, Cuban, Indigenous, American Trans performance artist, author, and playwright among many different titles...

jayy dodd offers her own brilliant reflections on so many things: the contemporary moment, dystopia, her transition, and more...

Is classical Japanese poetry something to be enjoyed in private, an object of study for scholars, or an item of public life teeming with hints about how to understand and deal with our past and our future?

Williams presents a familiar world full of burnings carried out on both the grand and intimate scale...

J Mase III takes on themes of the messiness of grief, Black trans spirituality, and what it means to be an independent artist...

Adriana X. Jacobs offers a translation-centered reading of twentieth-century modern Hebrew poetry...

Donavan examines what it is to love romantically, sexually, as a friend, and as a resident of the world...

Narratively arranged, these poems offer up an evocative and chilling imagining of life and times of Holmes along with his wives, victims, and accomplices...

Isobel O’Hare’s all this can be yours (University of Hell Press, 2019) presents a series of erasures crafted from celebrity sexual assault apologies...

Building from her brother's death and journeying through her grieving process, Burns guides readers into her heart and back out...

The poetry and prose in Ivy Johnson’s Born Again (The Operating System, 2018) beautifully dives into the ecstatic expression of religious experience.

In her first full-length collection, A Cruelty Special to Our Species (Ecco Books, 2018), Emily Jungmin Yoon examines forms of violence against women...

Pillow of Dreams (Nivedita Lakhera, 2017) is an intensely emotional and inspirational collection of poetry and art by Dr. Nivedita Lakhera. She experienced a stroke, divorce, and then a heartbreak all at the young age of 27.

In this episode, we speak with Vernon Keeve III about his book Southern Migrant Mixtape (Nomadic Press, 2018), a collection published by Nomadic Press. Memoir comes in many forms, be it poetry or prose. Keeve’s work is a bridge between both worlds.