May 21, 2018
Announcing the winner of the 2018 R.M. Kinder Prize, John Mattson, for his story "Figure and Ground," which will appear in the Winter 2019 issue of Pleiades: Literature in Context. Congratulations, ...
May 10, 2018
Three Minute Book Review: Jessica Raney on Kevin Holton's At the Hands of Madness (Severed Press, 2018) - Is this book a papyrus, typewriter, desk top computer, or iPad? This book is a Star Fleet issue PADD, used by Seven of Nine. Nanites play a part, so resistance is futile. If this book had parents, who would they be? If Pacific Rim and the X-Men had a baby, that baby would be At the Hands of Madness. ...
April 30, 2018
Author of Willy Loman’s Reckless Daughter or Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances by William Trowbridge William Trowbridge: It has been nearly 16 years between your previous collection of poems The Republic of Self and Willy Loman’s Reckless Daughter. Why so long? Elizabeth A.I. Powell: This new collection was pretty much finished in 2005, and was a finalist that year for the National Poetry ...
April 26, 2018
Three-Minute Book Review: David Kirby on Terrance Hayes's American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (Penguin, forthcoming June 2018) - (1) If this book were a dish, it’d be one from the Cajun cookbook, because “all my encounters,” says the poet, “Are existential jambalaya.” And to wash it down? A glass of punch, the colder the better. Each of these poems is titled “American Sonnets for My Past and ...