by Cat Leeches | Aug 9, 2018 | Feature, Poetry Print
“This author has confected a compelling new uncanny life form under the sign of the slime mold. With phrases of lyric flight, garlands of theory, camouflaged confession, diagrams and screenshots, this piece is something like an essay, something like a collage,...
by Cat Leeches | Jul 23, 2018 | Feature, Poetry Print
At the center of “From a Poet to her Rumbero” is a bucking heart, grappling with its fanged history & unbreaking fever. You sense its luminous pulse from the opening scene: i’m a dying sky of eagles / i’m arrowed into it. The poem’s language is unbridled yet...
by Cat Leeches | Jun 26, 2018 | Feature, Reviews
Centaura cyanus Not Maggie Nelson Planted March 3rd Southern Exposure Seed Exchange Transplanting not recommended Review by SELMS I don’t read much memoir (people generally bore me), so I was late to reading Maggie Nelson’s Bluets. There is much that can be said about...
