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0March 7, 2016
Book Review: Philip Metres’s Sand Opera

“We lift the blinds, look out into ink / For light. My God, my God, open the spine binding our...
0March 6, 2016
121 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Horsehead Nebula”

“infrared blues and oranges, / they’ve never seen a beauty like you.”
0February 22, 2016
Book Review: Monica Ong’s Silent Anatomies

Monica Ong elevates poetry to a new level, creating compositions that open up the genre and respond to the visual...
1February 18, 2016
120 Psaltery & Lyre: Rachael Matthews, “Return, pt. III” and “Gaia”

“I aim to make you my best friend, / my home, / the jar that will house my electricity ....
0February 15, 2016
Book Review: Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely

Be warned: those protective layers you’ve carefully built up may be in danger of dissolution.
0February 11, 2016
Book Review: Matthea Harvey, If the Tabloids Are True What Are You?

“The danger of Harvey’s recent book is that it can feel disjointed, like a summation of individual chapbooks or projects...

0February 6, 2016
Book Review: LoterÃa Cards and Fortune Poems: A Book of Lives

“While the book contains splendidly intricate and intriguing linocuts on every other page, the poems are more or less forgettable.”
0February 6, 2016
119 Psaltery & Lyre: Matthew LaBrot, “St. Francis River”

“Sheets of silver snow in the rearview mirror. / I leave loved ones behind, / knowing future loss will bring...
1January 18, 2016
Book Review: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee

Cha’s is an unwelcoming text. It shoves back, sometimes with short, chopped up sentences, and other times with opaque references...
0December 22, 2015
118 Psaltery & Lyre: Matthew LaBrot, “Transfiguration”

“A lone lightning bug catches my gaze / and quickly I strike it down, / its body going thunk ....
0December 22, 2015
117 Psaltery & Lyre: Alex Spears “‘Til the end”

“I step through my eyes, / onto the electrified track. / There I hop a current / and ride /...

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