July 21, 2023
By Brandi White
Vines, A. Lures: Poems. Louisiana State University Press. 2022. $17.95.
One of the first things the reader will notice about Adam Vines’s latest collection of poetry, Lures, is the tranquil cover image of a broken-down fishing pole propped up in a canoe. John Sekutowski’s soft, high-definition photo wraps around the book’s jacket; because the image is shot from the viewer’s ...
June 19, 2023
Pleiades congratulates A.J. Rodriguez, winner of the 2023 Kinder/Crump Award for Short Fiction, judged by Jonathan Escoffery. He will receive an award of $1,000 and his winning story, “Aguas,” will be published in the Fall 2023 issue of Pleiades.
Of the winning story, Jonathan Escoffery writes:
“I loved the story's rhythm and narrative voice, and appreciate how it deftly renders the gravity ...
June 19, 2023
By Dean Faucheux
Rafael Frumkin is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Medill School of Journalism. He is the author of three books: The Comedown (2018), Confidence (2023), and Bugsy (2024). His fiction, creative nonfiction, journalism, and criticism have appeared in Granta, Guernica, The Paris Review, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Best American ...
June 18, 2023
Artist Statement
by Lisa Huffaker
Fascinating Womanhood was a bestselling “self-improvement” book for wives, published in 1963. It became the manual for the “femininity” movement of the 60s and 70s, promising women who felt alienated by second-wave feminism that all would be well if they would become “ideal women” – by suppressing their own capability, showering their husbands with ...
