Congratulations to Andrew Garvin, Winner of the Prufer Poetry Prize! Pleiades congratulates Andrew Garvin, winner of this year’s Prufer Poetry Prize, judged by Sarah Ghazal Ali. He will receive an award of $1,000 and his winning poem, “County Fairs,” will be published...
Rey M. Rodríguez An Interview with Sergio Troncoso Sergio Troncoso was born to Mexican immigrants in the Ysleta neighborhood of El Paso, Texas. The family lived in a colonia near the border in a house that Troncoso's parents built, without electricity or running water...
Vandana Khanna Stardust & Destiny Meena wakes with a dry mouth and swirls of blue-black marks on the back of her hand—a fake bruise indicating every club or bar that she’d been to over the weekend. The previous nights’ restless revelry resulting in a cluster of...
Pleiades congratulates Josh Emmons, winner of this year’s Kinder/Crump Award for Short Fiction, judged by Anjanette Delgado. He will receive an award of $1,000 and his winning story, “There Is a Field, I’ll Meet You There,” will be published in the Fall 2024...
By Loisa Fenichell Long Exposure. Julia Anna Morrison. Moon City Press, 2023. $14.95 Grief and the Moon: A Review of Julia Anna Morrison’s Long Exposure “The moon is the only model I have for motherhood,” Julia Anna Morrison writes in her award-winning debut poetry...
By Rebecca Valley Dutton, Danielle. Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other. Coffee House Press, 2024. $17.95 Opening Spaces: A Review of Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other by Danielle Dutton PRAIRIE When I enter Danielle Dutton’s latest book, Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other, the...
By Katherine James Tolchinsky, Raisa. Glass Jaw. Persea Books, 2024. $17.00. How Hard a Thing It Is to Say: On Feminist Revisioning, Vulnerability, and Touch in Raisa Tolchinsky’s Glass Jaw There’s a strong tradition in contemporary poetry (well, in contemporary...
Read an interview with the author here. Jeneé Skinner Mother Goose An old woman gave birth to four eggs. Gold and cradled by tree roots and ribbons inside her house. Their births were ugly, complicated by forceps and fluorescent lighting, but the loving made it worth...
Osasere Edo-Ewansiha Jeneé Skinner has a degree in Creative Writing and went abroad to the University of Oxford to study Renaissance Literature and the Italian Renaissance. Her work has appeared in The Kenyon Review, Missouri Review, Roxanne Gay’s The Audacity, and...