Congratulations to Josh Emmons, Winner of the Kinder/Crump Award!

July 02, 2024

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 issue of Pleiades. Josh Emmons has published two novels and a story collection, plus work in magazines and book anthologies. He lives in ...

REVIEW OF “LONG EXPOSURE”

May 28, 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 collection Long Exposure, in which Morrison adopts an older theme—the moon as a matrilineal symbol—and explores it through poems that are at ...

REVIEW OF “YOU ARE HERE: POETRY IN THE NATURAL WORLD”

May 09, 2024

By Elaina Friedman You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World. Ed. Ada Limón. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2024. $25.00 Walking home from a friend’s house in Seattle in the spring of 2021, I spotted a small grayish bird sitting in the middle of a busy sidewalk. It blinked its shiny black eyes fixedly toward a row of bushes as if it were waiting for something to come out, looking unbothered by the rush of commuters ...

REVIEW OF DANIELLE DUTTON’S “PRAIRIE, DRESSES, ART, OTHER”

April 26, 2024

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 narrator is nameless. In the prairie, only plants and animals have names. And it’s this anonymous “she” that I follow into Dutton’s first ...