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Focal Point by Jenny Qi Steel Toe Books October 2021 ISBN 978-1-949540-26-0 87 pages Book Review by Angelo Mao A “focal point,” the title of Jenny Qi’s first collection of poetry, is the location ...

Focal Point by Jenny Qi Review by Angelo Mao

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As Long as Trees Take Root in the Earth and Other Poems  Poems by Alain Mabanckou, translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson  Review by Katherine E. Young Seagull Books, 2021 $19.00 124 pp. ISBN 978 0 8574 2 877 ...

As Long as Trees Take Root in the Earth and Other Poems Review by Katherine E. Young

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Curb Divya Victor review by Mandana Chaffa  Nightboat Books, April 2021, 128 pages, $17.95   Divya Victor’s Curb explores immigration, identity, and the boundaries that keep us safe and those that ...

Curb by Divya Victor review by Mandana Chaffa

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Breaking with (and through) the Page: Narrating Womxn’s Untold Stories Through Erasure in Jennifer Sperry Steinorth’s Her Read: A Graphic Poem  Review by Shannon K. Winston Texas Review Press, 2021  248 ...

Jennifer Sperry Steinorth’s Her Read: A Graphic Poem Reviewed by Shannon K. Winston

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Dona Juanita and the Love of Boys by Gabrielle Everall Review by Kiran Bhat Dona Juanita and the Love of Boys, written by Gabrielle Everall, attempts to take the narrative of the male gaze and feminize it. This is ...

Dona Juanita and the Love of Boys by Gabrielle Everall Review by Kiran Bhat

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Grieving Written by Cristina Rivera Garza The Feminist Press, 2020 182 pages Reviewed by Shannon Nakai    From birth to death, the universal experience linking human existence across our diverse ...

Grieving by Cristina Rivera Garza Reviewed by Shannon Nakai

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Atomizer by Elizabeth A. I. Powell   Publisher ‏ : ‎ LSU Press (September 9, 2020) Language ‏ : ‎ English Paperback ‏ : ‎ 108 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0807173908 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ ...

Atomizer by Elizabeth A. I. Powell reviewed by Kerrin McCadden

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Black Earth: Selected Poems and Prose  Written by Osip Mandelstam Translated from Russian by Peter France  Reviewed by Marina Brown  New Directions Publishing ISBN: 9780811230971 (paperback) | ISBN ...

Black Earth: Selected Poems and Prose Reviewed by Marina Brown

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On My Husband by Rumena Bužarovska Translated from Macedonian by Paul Filev McLean, IL/Dublin: Dalkey Archive Press 2019 128 pages $15.95 Review by: Eva Dunsky   In the United States as of late, we’ve ...

My Husband Review by Eva Dunsky

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