August 30, 2018
Bright Raft in the Afterweather
University of Arizona Press
2018
If you planted Bright Raft in the Afterweather byJennifer Elise Foerster in the ground, what would grow? The feathers of a bird, and then its bones, and then the sea it flew through before it became a boat the shape of a fish. And that plant would find itself exiled on a treadmill by a window on the corner of 16thand De Haro and ...
August 17, 2018
Three Minute Review: Sakinah Hofler on Kelly Sundberg
Goodbye, Sweet Girl: A Story of Domestic Violence and Survival
HarperCollins, 2018
If this book took the form of a landscape, it would be a mashup of seemingly impossible terrains:
Shifting mountains. “That hot, dry summer was the summer that I spent digging in clear, ...
August 08, 2018
Artress Bethany White
Everything Resides in a Name
The day the white babysitter
calls you colored, you believe
your birth parents were rainbows,
unicorns, brightly hued fairies
dancing across the television screen--
all beautiful, colorful things.
You ask if I like being called black,
a term rich in value and tincture.
I don’t mind, I say, explaining the word
is synonymous with ...
June 26, 2018
The Experiments: A Legend in Pictures and Words by Rachel May (Dusie, 2015)
If you planted this book in the ground, what would grow?
Pokeweed. Pokeweed berries have been used to make ink and fabric dye for centuries. Like May's flash fiction, they are humble in origin but produce rich colors. I imagine if you dug up the book again, the pages would be vampire purple.
What book is this book's ...
