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Spanning decades and distance, generations of women move through each other’s lives in Rebecca Hart Olander’s second full-length poetry collection, Singing from the Deep End. Opening with “Cape Ann,” “a cape named for a mother, / and a queen,” the speaker in this poem...

Although I’ve been a mother for over two decades, I’ve only rarely found myself pulled toward creative nonfiction about parenting. But when I recently came across Mothers and Other Fictional Characters by Nicole Graev Lipson, I picked it up immediately. The title...

Someone, somewhere once referred to Saint Prisca, or Pricilla, as “the one who wouldn’t die.” According to legend, this young girl, baptized by Saint Peter, was ordered by a Roman emperor to make a sacrifice to the pagan god Apollo. When she refused, men beat her and...

Sons, Daughters. Ivana Bodrožić. Seven Stories Press; April 2024. $21.95. “It’s a hit-and-miss,” was a recent explanation of LGBTQ+ tolerance in Croatia. The statement was uttered during an official conversation about the country, surprising all who have been lulled...

Michael Chang’s fourth collection, Toy Soldiers (Action, Spectacle Press), is part prayer, part pop culture generator, and a scathing anti-ode to our justice system. Of our Supreme Court, they write, “the cardinal sin of poetry (no stakes) has been a pattern and...

Behind closed doors at a Potsdam hotel, a far-right movement proposes racist plans to force out millions of citizens with migrant backgrounds. This is not the Germany of 1933 but of 2023. While the press was quick to express outrage over the ideas exposed in this...