Review: DADDY ISSUES by Alex McElroy
Daddy Issues Alex McElroy 2017 The Cupboard Pamphlet 72 pages Review by JEREMY BURKE The stories in Alex McElroy's Daddy Issues deal frequently with masculinity, memory, and the loss of the past. These stories predate the 2016...
Review: THE LOST DAUGHTER COLLECTIVE by Lindsey Drager
The Lost Daughter Collective by Lindsey Drager made me ache deep inside for all the daughters whose loss throbs in their families’ bodies.
Review: CHILDREN OF THE NEW WORLD by Alexander Weinstein
Children of the New World Alexander Weinstein 2016 Picador 226 pages Review by MAGGIE NYE Alexander Weinstein, director of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing and author of the technology-obsessed debut collection Children of the New Word, is a...
2017 Contest: An Interview with Flash Prose Judge Joyelle McSweeney
Joyelle McSweeney is the author of eight books of poems, fiction, drama and essays. Her writing chases an exuberant sound-infused hyperdiction through an array of genres, conventions, personae and forms. Her poetry books include The Red Bird, The...
43.2 Feature: An Interview with Sara Jane Stoner
I could say these poems are “about” how we all have our monsters on the inside and on the outside.
An Interview with Yanara Friedland
I am less of a writer and more grounded in a tradition of chronicler, scribe, archivist; someone who moves between times and their respective archives, lifting and carrying materials across the heavy thresholds of so-called history and space.
2016 Contest: Nonfiction Runner-up THE FUTURE OF THE LYING BODY by Sarah Cook
Click here for more information about our 2017 contest. Sarah Cook's writing has appeared in Illuminati Girl Gang, Gaga Stigmata, The Feminist Wire, and elsewhere. Her latest chapbook, "Somewhere the / Shaking," is newly out from above/ground press. She writes...
Review: OVERPOUR by Jane Wong
Overpour Jane Wong 2016 Action Books 99 pages Review by RYAN BOLLENBACH In Jane Wong’s Ted Talk on her poetics of haunting, she says haunting is not “a matter of the past coming back, repressed…but is a productive and intentional act to go toward the ghost and rewrite...
2017 Contest: An Interview with Poetry Judge Rachel McKibbens
Rachel McKibbens is a two-time New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellow and author of Pink Elephant, Into the Dark & Emptying Field and blud. She founded The Pink Door Women’s Writing Retreat, the only annual writing retreat exclusively for women of color,...
2017 Contest: A Conversation with Nonfiction Judge Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib
Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio. His first collection of poems, The Crown Ain’t Worth Much, was released by Button Poetry in 2016. His first collection of essays, They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, is...