Reviews

Mon May 7 2012 Half in Shade: Family, Photography, and Fate by Judith Kitchen by Alex Starace Half in Shade: Family, Photography, and Fateby Judith Kitchen Coffee House Press Imagine sifting Read more...	Mon Apr 30 2012 Water Puppets by Quan Barry by Dane Hamann Water Puppetsby Quan BarryUniversity of Pittsburgh Press There is a journalistic objectivity to Read more...	Mon Mar 19 2012 Neighborhood Register by Marcus Jackson by Aaron DeLee Neighborhood Registerby Marcus JacksonCavanKerry Press For his freshman collection of poems, Read more...
Mon Mar 5 2012 Tamura Ryuichi: On the Life and Work of a 20th Century Master by Mike Puican Tamura Ryuichi: On the Life and Work of a 20th Century MasterEdited by Takako Lento and Wayne Read more...	Mon Feb 20 2012 Fall Line by Joe Samuel Starnes by Jessica Handler Fall Lineby Joe Samuel Starnes NewSouth Books Most of the two dozen or so lakes in Georgia were Read more...	Mon Nov 14 2011 not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward them by Jenny Boully by Barry Silesky not merely because of the unknown that was stalking toward themby Jenny Boully Tarpaulin Sky Read more...
Sun Oct 9 2011 Hallucination by William Fuller by Mike Puican The first poem in William Fuller’s provocative new collection of poems, Hallucination, ends with Read more...	Mon Aug 15 2011 Alfred Kazin's Journals by Richard Wirick Alfred Kazin's JournalsSelected and Edited by Richard M. Cook Yale University Press “God is simply Read more...	Mon Jun 27 2011 The Cosmopolitans by Nadia Kalman by Lana Rakhman The CosmopolitansBy Nadia Kalman Livingston Press Nadia Kalman’s fiction is a new addition to the Read more...

Views

God's Party Town

Those flaxen evangelicals, imbued with their holy ghost or some such helter-skelter mania, were surely not from Chicago, not of Sweet Home—bused in from Kansas, perchance?
Returning the World to the Workshop: Using Theme

The reasons for my discomfort became clear one September afternoon at the Minnesota State Fair pig judging contest.
Reinvigorating the Creative Writing Workshop Using Blogs

As one student put it: “Too much liberty for me is death.”
Workshop Alternatives

In one fell swoop, this eliminates almost all the problems I’ve encountered in typical workshops.

Interviews

Susie Bright: Interview

Big Sex Little Death focuses most of its pages on Bright’s complicated and sometimes painful history.
Ian Heames: Interview

Ian Heames began printmaking in a sub-basement several floors beneath a library at Oxford.
Brooklyn Copeland: Interview

I started writing poetry as a freshman in high school. I would buy blank notebooks as souvenirs because I found the idea of a bunch of blank pages really appealing.
Linda McCarriston: Interview

According to Linda McCarriston, poetry exists for reasons beyond displays of linguistic or lyrical talent.

Reviews

Half in Shade: Family, Photography, and Fate by Judith Kitchen

Over the course of ten years, Kitchen has jotted notes about photos she found in her family’s scrapbook. She has now collected her writings into a cohesive work accompanied by approximately seventy images.
Water Puppets by Quan Barry

There is a journalistic objectivity to Quan Barry’s new collection of poems, Water Puppets. The poems linger on scenes of profound violence and inhumanity, reporting heavy truths of war, massacre, and disaster.
Neighborhood Register by Marcus Jackson

In Neighborhood Register, Marcus Jackson eloquently establishes a time and place: the American Rust Belt of his adolescence during the late twentieth century.
Tamura Ryuichi: On the Life and Work of a 20th Century Master

Tamura’s work relentlessly pulls us into highly charged and disturbing themes of violence, culpability, and survival.

Blog Posts

Drinkers with a Writing Problem

May 9, 2012
An Eye for an Eye Leaves Everyone Blind

Apr 30, 2012
Flash-Circuit

Apr 26, 2012
Books, Brains, Baboons, Buddhism and Barry White.

Apr 23, 2012