Jeanne Wagner – Schrödinger’s Cat
Schrödinger’s Cat In the thought experiment, a hypothetical cat may be considered simultaneously both alive and dead only while it is unobserved in a closed box. ―Wikipedia I think of him, wrapped in his striped-orange fur, warm and comfy in his box right before we open it and gaze down. Killing him softly as the […]
Kim Addonizio – Compassion Problem
Compassion Problem By season two of The Walking Dead I’ve almost grown immune to corpses staggering along a road or through the woods drawn by gunshots, bells, some music, like old dolls leaking dust only blood spews out if you cut or stab or aim a car through them, you might pull at one & […]
Alexis Rhone Fancher’s Brazen, Reviewed by Brian Fanelli
Brazen Alexis Rhone Fancher NYQ Books Reviewer: Brian Fanelli Anyone even slightly familiar with Alexis Rhone Fancher’s work knows that she doesn’t shy away from sexually charged and raunchy poetry. Her collected works for NYQ Books is called Erotic, for example. Her latest, Brazen, continues the tradition of poems that ooze with fierce and bold […]
Francesca Bell’s What Small Sound, Reviewed by Vivian Wagner
What Small Sound Francesca Bell Red Hen Press Reviewer: Vivian Wagner What Small Sound, a new poetry collection by Francesca Bell, is an exploration of life, death, and love, and of the myriad ways these essential elements of human existence intersect and define each other. The poems in this collection don’t offer any easy answers […]
Preeti Kaur Rajpal’s membery, Reviewed by Karen Corinne Herceg
membery Preeti Kaur Rajpal Tupelo Press Reviewer: Karen Corinne Herceg Preeti Kaur Rajpal’s haunting debut collection, membery, explores the impact of colonialism and displacement from a deeply personal perspective. Rajpal’s family is uprooted after the violent and poorly orchestrated 1947 partition of the subcontinent that became India and Pakistan after three centuries of British rule. […]
