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reviewed by Sally Smits Masten Monster Colloquia Robert Campbell Hellbox Publications, April 2020 $7.99; 34 pp. ISBN: 9781734888904 For about a year, while we were binge-watching The Walking Dead, I ...

Review: Monster Colloquia by Robert Campbell

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reviewed by Sarah Carey Kyrie Ellen Bryant Voight W.W. Norton and Company, 1995 $17.95; 79 pp. ISBN: 9780393037968 If past is prologue … the saying goes. If we knew then, what we know now…, we might ...

Review: Kyrie by Ellen Bryant Voight

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reviewed by Brian Finney Utopia Avenue David Mitchell Random House, July 14, 2020 $17.28; 592 pp. ISBN: 978-0812997439 It is five years since David Mitchell released his last novel, Slade House (2015). ...

Review: Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell

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reviewed by Rochelle Spencer Black Imagination: Black Voices on Black Future curated by Natasha Marin McSweeney’s, February 2020. $14.00; 216pp. ISBN: 978-1-94421-184-4 At around 3:15pm on a ...

Review: Black Imagination curated by Natasha Marin

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reviewed by Sonya Lara  How to Pronounce Knife Short stories by Souvankham Thammavongsa Little, Brown and Company, April 2020. $26.00; 192pp. ISBN: 978-0-316-42213-0 How to Pronounce Knife by ...

Review: How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa

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reviewed by Kion You DMZ Colony Don Mee Choi Wave Books, April 2020. $20.00; 152pp. ISBN: 978-1-94069-695-9 Although Don Mee Choi's new collection DMZ Colony weaves together oral history, memoir, ...

Review: DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi

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reviewed by Mandana Chaffa The Clearing Allison Adair Milkweed Press, June 2020. $22.00; 88 pp. ISBN: 978-1571315144 “What if this time instead of crumbs the girl drops / teeth, her own, what else does ...

Review: The Clearing by Allison Adair

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Reviewed by Brooke Green A Nail the Evening Hangs On Poems by Monica Sok Copper Canyon Press, February 2020. $17.00; 60 pp. ISBN: 978-1556595608 Monica Sok’s radiant debut collection, A Nail the ...

Review: A Nail the Evening Hangs On by Monica Sok

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by Joshua Escobar Wild Invocations Ysabel Y. González Get Fresh Books, March 2019. $20.00; 70 pp. ISBN:0998935859 Recollections, resolutions, and rifts make up this collection, which focuses on a young ...

Review: Wild Invocations by Ysabel Y. González

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