by Cat Leeches | Aug 16, 2018 | Feature, Nonfiction Print
“I am moved by the geography in this piece. Not just the geography of a landscape — also the geography of body, of gender, of family. The speaker enters with high stakes and manages to traverse the entire narrative with the stakes remaining high, emotional, and...
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 | Aug 6, 2018 | Feature, Reviews
To Think of Her Writing Awash In Light: Lyrical Essays on Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Dickinson, Hettie Jones, Joanne Kyger and Anne Waldman Linda Russo Subito Press 65 pages Review by RBrown Linda Russo begins her collection of creative and critical essays with a...
by Cat Leeches | Jul 26, 2018 | Alabama, Feature, Interviews
Ashley M. Jones received an MFA in Poetry from Florida International University (FIU), where she was a John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Fellow. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in many journals and anthologies, including the Academy of American Poets, Tupelo...
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 29, 2018 | Feature, Fiction Print
Pollution People C Pam Zhang from BWR 44.1 An hour south of the border and Dad tips over with a whump that makes the forest explode like a cutscene. The ancient car rattles, Nim brakes into a gully, and shrapnel flings from the trees. Nim waits for death. But...
