October 04, 2018
Three-Minute Book Review: Sarah Green on Jared Harel's Go Because I Love You (Diode Editions, 2018)
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If you planted this book in the ground, what would grow?
Pretty sure this book would grow children (“My four-year-old shoves / a toy block in my face / and screams Cheeese!”) but it might also grow patience, fall light, dead people’s card tricks, Frisbees, pot, voicemails. A deliciously cluttered evocative ...
September 23, 2018
Three-Minute Book Review: Kaity Bolger on Sophfronia Scott's Love’s Long Line (The Ohio State University Press, 2018)
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What snack should you have while reading this book?
S’mores. Something warm and gushy to lighten your heart as you process Scott’s traumas and her family’s traumas along with her. Also keep a fresh marshmallow nearby to dry a tear or two.
What is this book’s theme song?
No Tears ...
September 19, 2018
A poet, a creative nonfiction writer, and a prose writer who edited an anthology discuss their new books, all coming out this fall. They ask such question as: Is political writing inevitable or a deliberate choice? How can literature spark change and improve the lives of women and people of color in our country?
Sarah Fawn Montgomery: Let’s begin by talking about the ...
September 07, 2018
Three-Minute Book Review: Jeff Alessandrelli on Melissa Cundieff's Darling Nova (Autumn House Press, 2018)
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If planted in the ground Melissa Cundieff’s Darling Nova would birth an odd concoction of savory and sweet, a mixing of amorphous physical form beyond colorless feathers and nostalgia-less wistfulness. In the poem “Everything Cruel Is Also Real” Cundieff writes, “I want to give you my hand in ...
