Review: LECTURE by Chase Burke

Review: LECTURE by Chase Burke Lecture Chase Burke Paper Nautilus Press 33 pages Review by Sandra Barnidge If Chase Burke’s debut chapbook, Lecture, came with a quiz at the end, here would be the answers: 1. Julius Caesar drank from a blue cup, a very blue cup. 2. The...

Review: FOR THE RIDE by Alice Notley

Review: FOR THE RIDE by Alice Notley For the Ride Alice Notley Penguin Books 144 pages Affection: For the Ride Review by August Kelly One read poetry of One For The Ride pastly; sticks; one thinks are getting it. If are One can speak thusly? Sounds like? One is...

Review: THE BOY IN THE LABYRINTH by Oliver de la Paz

Review: THE BOY IN THE LABYRINTH by Oliver de la Paz The Boy in the Labyrinth Oliver de la Paz University of Akron Press 155 pages Review by Tyra Isaacs Oliver de la Paz’s The Boy in the Labyrinth is a retelling of the Greek myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. But as...

Four Short Poetry Reviews

Reviews by REILLY COXMarginalized experiences are constantly, brutally, consistently conflated, both between communities and within them. POC, queer, dis, poz—whatever the experience, it is assumed that one experience equals another of the same name. This is, in part,...