Reviewed by John W. W. Zeiser
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
Poems by Chen Chen
BOA Editions, April 2017
$16.00; 96 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1942683339
Chen Chen’s debut ...
Book Review: When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen
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Once she threw everything out, we thought there would be more room. I gave away a lot I wanted. Mom said, “We can get new stuff,” but you can guess what happened. Our old stuff is still gone.
Except for the puffed ...
Easy Exotic by Sonia Feigelson
Fiction, LAR Online
We were looking forward to stepping off the southernmost point of the
country.
Instead I'm eating spiny lobster alone.
Bougainvillea makes me think of you
specifically the hairs chesting your throat. Parrot's hard ...
The Longest Distance Between Two Places by Lynn Schmeidler
LAR Online, Poetry
Reviewed by Alix Anne Shaw
Blackacre
Poems by Monica Youn
Graywolf Press, September 2016
$16.00; 88 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1555977504
Throughout her thoughtful and thought-provoking third collection, Monica ...
Book Review: Blackacre by Monica Youn
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Reviewed by Jill Moyer Sunday
Letters to a Young Muslim
Nonfiction by Omar Saif Ghobash
Picador, January 2017
£16.99; 272 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1509842599
The intersection of fundamentalist Islamic ...
Book Review: Letters to a Young Muslim by Omar Saif Ghobash
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“I hate this song. It doesn’t make any sense.”
A friend of mine and I have just had dinner, having gotten together for the first time since she’s moved here to Missouri. We’re sitting in my parked car talking ...
Admission by LaTanya McQueen
LAR Online, Nonfiction
Reviewed by John W. W. Zeiser
My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter
Poems by Aja Monet
Haymarket Books, May 2017
$16.00; 120 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1608467679
“Gestures in good faith do not change oppression,” ...
Book Review: My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter by Aja Monet
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Staying Alive
as I can and I don’t care anything about Tony
Manero’s new life in Manhattan. Fuck that rapist fuck.
No, he didn’t do Annette, he only watched. But what stuck
with me was the hurt his silence ...
Poetry by Sherraine Pate Williams
LAR Online, Poetry
Pick a safe spot
The slight depression with its darkened earth, bits of blackened twigs and surrounding stones lies near but not too close to the maple tree, halfway between house and cow barn. He passes that bit of ...
How to Build a Bonfire by Carol D. Marsh
LAR Online, Nonfiction