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  • February 2021
    • Feb 26, 2021 Franny Choi's Soft Science (Alice James, 2019)
    • Feb 12, 2021 Kimberly Alidio’s : once teeth bones coral : (Belladonna*, 2020)
  • January 2021
    • Jan 22, 2021 Lisa Summe’s Say It Hurts (YesYesBooks, 2021)
    • Jan 8, 2021 Andrea Long Chu’s Females (Verso, 2019)
  • December 2020
    • Dec 18, 2020 Browning’s Witch Doctrine (U of Akron, 2020)
    • Dec 4, 2020 Patrice Boyer Claeys's The Machinery of Grace (Kelsay Books, 2020)
  • October 2020
    • Oct 23, 2020 Lindsay Tigue's System of Ghosts (U of Iowa, 2016)
    • Oct 9, 2020 Sara Borjas's Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff (Noemi Press, 2019)
  • September 2020
    • Sep 25, 2020 Collaborative Interview: Cummings & Graue
    • Sep 18, 2020 Collaborative Interview: Graue & Cummings
  • August 2020
    • Aug 28, 2020 Takako Arai’s Factory Girls (Action Books, 2019) & Leslie Kaplan’s Excess—The Factory (Commune Editions, 2018)
    • Aug 14, 2020 Jan Bottiglieri's Everything Seems Significant: The Blade Runner Poems (BlazeVOX, 2019)
  • July 2020
    • Jul 18, 2020 Collaborative Interview: George & Camp
    • Jul 3, 2020 Julia Cohen's Good Timing & Gertrude Stein (Diode, 2020)
  • June 2020
    • Jun 19, 2020 Joy Priest's Horsepower (U of Pittsburgh, 2020)
    • Jun 8, 2020 Rosa Alcalá's MyOther Tongue (Futurepoem, 2017)
  • May 2020
    • May 22, 2020 Aimée Baker’s Doe (University of Akron Press, 2018)
    • May 8, 2020 Collaborative Interview: Molberg & Nuernberger
  • April 2020
    • Apr 24, 2020 Erín Moure’s Translation of Wilson Bueno’s Paraguayan Sea (Nightboat, 2017)
    • Apr 10, 2020 Aria Aber’s Hard Damage (U of Nebraska, 2019)
  • March 2020
    • Mar 27, 2020 Alison C. Rollins's Library of Small Catastrophes
    • Mar 13, 2020 Jos Charles's feeld (Milkweed, 2018)
  • February 2020
    • Feb 27, 2020 Xandria Phillips’s Hull (Nightboat Books, 2019)
    • Feb 17, 2020 Kim Hyesoon’s Autobiography of Death (New Directions, 2018)
  • December 2019
    • Dec 27, 2019 Jena Osman's Motion Studies (Ugly Duckling, 2019)
  • September 2019
    • Sep 27, 2019 Jeanann Verlee’s prey (Black Lawrence, 2019)
    • Sep 9, 2019 Samantha Giles’s Total Recall (Krupskaya, 2018)
  • August 2019
    • Aug 23, 2019 Julia Bouwsma's Midden (Fordham University Press, 2018)
    • Aug 9, 2019 Irène Mathieu’s Grand Marronage (Switchback, 2019)
  • July 2019
    • Jul 19, 2019 Keetje Kuipers's All Its Charms (BOA, 2019)
    • Jul 5, 2019 Karyna McGlynn’s Hothouse (Sarabande, 2017)
  • June 2019
    • Jun 14, 2019 Emily Jungmin Yoon's A Cruelty Special to Our Species (Ecco, 2018)
  • May 2019
    • May 31, 2019 Bianca Stone's The Möbius Strip Club of Grief (Tin House, 2018)
    • May 17, 2019 Rebecca Morgan Frank’s Sometimes We’re All Living in a Foreign Country (CMU Press, 2017)
    • May 3, 2019 Alicia Jo Rabins’s Fruit Geode (Augury Books, 2018)
  • March 2019
    • Mar 22, 2019 Vievee Francis's Forest Primeval (Triquarterly, 2015)
    • Mar 1, 2019 Kiki Petrosino's Witch Wife (Sarabande, 2017)
  • February 2019
    • Feb 15, 2019 Melissa Lozada-Oliva's Peluda (Button Poetry, 2017)
    • Feb 1, 2019 Kim Garcia's The Brighter House (White Pine, 2016)
  • January 2019
    • Jan 18, 2019 Sally Wen Mao's Oculus (Graywolf Press, 2019)
    • Jan 4, 2019 Heather June Gibbons’s Her Mouth as Souvenir (U of Utah, 2018)
  • December 2018
    • Dec 27, 2018 Review of Soham Patel’s to afar from afar (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2018)
    • Dec 20, 2018 Review of Hadara Bar-Nadav's The New Nudity (Saturnalia, 2017)
    • Dec 13, 2018 Review of Sally Rosen Kindred's Says the Forest to the Girl (Porkbelly Press, 2018)
    • Dec 6, 2018 Review of Sally Rosen Kindred's Says the Forest to the Girl (Porkbelly Press, 2018)
  • November 2018
    • Nov 29, 2018 Review of L.I. Henley’s Starshine Road (Perugia, 2017)
    • Nov 23, 2018 Review of Jenny George's The Dream of Reason (Copper Canyon Press, 2018)
    • Nov 15, 2018 Interview with Allison Joseph on Corporal Muse (Sibling Rivalry, 2018)
    • Nov 8, 2018 Review of Erika Meitner’s Holy Moly Carry Me (BOA, 2018)
    • Nov 1, 2018 Review of Kelli Anne Noftle's Adam Cannot Be Adam (Omnidawn, 2017)
  • October 2018
    • Oct 25, 2018 Review of Chase Berggrun's R E D (Birds, LLC, 2018)
    • Oct 11, 2018 Review of Carmen Giménez Smith’s Cruel Futures (City Lights, 2018)
  • September 2018
    • Sep 27, 2018 Review of Amy Pence's [It] Incandescent (Ninebark Press, 2018)
    • Sep 13, 2018 Review of Lara Mimosa Montes's The Somnambulist (Horse Less Press, 2016)
  • August 2018
    • Aug 30, 2018 Interview with Karen Paul Holmes on No Such Thing as Distance (Terrapin, 2018)
    • Aug 16, 2018 Diane Seuss's Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl (Graywolf, 2018)
    • Aug 3, 2018 Review of Kim Yideum's Cheer Up, Femme Fatale (Action Books, 2016)
  • July 2018
    • Jul 19, 2018 Review of Jennifer Jackson Berry’s The Feeder (YesYes Books, 2016)
    • Jul 6, 2018 Summer Reading
  • June 2018
    • Jun 23, 2018 Review of Christine Hamm's Notes on Wolves and Ruin (Ghostbird Press, 2017)
    • Jun 8, 2018 Review of Tarfia Faizullah’s Registers of Illuminated Villages (Graywolf, 2018)
  • May 2018
    • May 25, 2018 Review of Cait Weiss Orcutt’s VALLEYSPEAK (Zone 3 Press, 2017)
    • May 11, 2018 Review of MK Chavez’s Dear Animal, (Nomadic Press, 2016)
  • April 2018
    • Apr 20, 2018 Review of Heidi Czerwiec's Conjoining (Sable Books, 2017)
    • Apr 6, 2018 Review of Amber West's Hen & God (The Word Works, 2017)
  • March 2018
    • Mar 30, 2018 Review of Xandria Phillips's Reasons for Smoking (Seattle Review, 2018)
    • Mar 10, 2018 Review of Elizabeth Bradfield’s Once Removed (Persea Books, 2015)
  • February 2018
    • Feb 23, 2018 Review of Patricia Smith's Incendiary Art (TriQuarterly/Northwestern, 2017)
    • Feb 9, 2018 Review of Jenny Sadre-Orafai’s Malak (Platypus Press, 2017)
  • January 2018
    • Jan 26, 2018 Review of Eve L. Ewing's Electric Arches (Haymarket Books, 2017)
    • Jan 12, 2018 Review of Khaty Xiong's Poor Anima (Apogee, 2015)
  • December 2017
    • Dec 31, 2017 2017 Staff Recommendations
    • Dec 28, 2017 Review of Safia Elhillo's The January Children (University of Nebraska, 2017)
    • Dec 21, 2017 Interview with Lucy Biederman on The Walmart Book of the Dead (Vine Leaves Press, 2017)
    • Dec 14, 2017 Review of Nicole Homer's Pecking Order (Write Bloody, 2017)
    • Dec 7, 2017 Review of Human-Ghost Hybrid Project by Carol Guess & Daniela Olszewska (Black Lawrence, 2017)
  • November 2017
    • Nov 30, 2017 Review of jayy dodd's Mannish Tongues (Platypus Press, 2017)
    • Nov 23, 2017 Review of Nikki Wallschlaeger's Crawlspace (Bloof Books, 2017)
    • Nov 2, 2017 Review of Lisa Allen Ortiz's Guide to the Exhibit (Perugia, 2016)
  • October 2017
    • Oct 26, 2017 Review of Lynn Melnick’s Landscape with Sex and Violence (YesYes, 2017)
    • Oct 19, 2017 Review of Lo Kwa Mei-en's The Bees Make Money in the Lion (CSU, 2016)
    • Oct 12, 2017 Review of Sophie Klahr's Meet Me Here at Dawn (YesYes Books, 2016)
    • Oct 5, 2017 Review of Donika Kelly's Bestiary (Graywolf, 2016)
  • September 2017
    • Sep 28, 2017 Review of Mary Ruefle's My Private Property (Wave Books, 2016)
    • Sep 21, 2017 Review of Megan Levad's Why We Live in the Dark Ages (Tavern Books, 2015)
    • Sep 14, 2017 Review of Sara Uribe's Antígona González (Les Figues Press, 2016)
    • Sep 7, 2017 Review of Kathleen McGookey's Heart in a Jar (White Pine, 2017)
  • August 2017
    • Aug 31, 2017 Review of Catherine Pierce's The Tornado Is the World (Saturnalia, 2016)
    • Aug 24, 2017 Review of Imani Sims's (A)Live Heart (Sibling Rivalry, 2016)
    • Aug 17, 2017 Review of Jordan Rice's Constellarium (Orison Books, April 2016)
    • Aug 10, 2017 Review of Melissa Broder's Last Sext (Tin House, 2016)
    • Aug 3, 2017 Review of Jessica Jacobs's In Whatever Light Left to Us (Sibling Rivalry, 2016)
  • July 2017
    • Jul 31, 2017 Katherine Webb's Bad Drawings for Good Poetry: Jones
    • Jul 27, 2017 Review of Shelley Wong's Rare Birds (Diode Editions, 2017)
    • Jul 20, 2017 Review of Jenny Johnson's In Full Velvet (Sarabande, 2017)
    • Jul 13, 2017 Review of Sarah Sarai’s Geographies of Soul and Taffeta (Indolent Books, 2016)
    • Jul 6, 2017 Review of Jennifer Givhan's Protection Spell (University of Arkansas Press, 2017)
  • June 2017
    • Jun 29, 2017 Review of Olivia Gatwood's New American Best Friend (Button Poetry, 2017)
    • Jun 26, 2017 Katherine Webb's Bad Drawings for Good Poetry: Mortara
    • Jun 22, 2017 Review of Aziza Barnes's i be, but i ain't (YesYes Books, 2016)
    • Jun 15, 2017 Review of Amandine André's Circle of Dogs (Solar Luxuriance, 2015)
    • Jun 8, 2017 Review of Essy Stone's What It Done to Us (Lost Horse Press, 2017)
    • Jun 1, 2017 Review of Laurie Ann Guerrero's A Crown for Gumecindo (Aztlan Libre, 2015)
  • May 2017
    • May 25, 2017 Review of Marisa Crawford’s Reversible (Switchback Books, 2017)
    • May 22, 2017 Katherine Webb's Bad Drawings for Good Poetry: Limón
    • May 18, 2017 Review of Leah Poole Osowski's Hover Over Her (Kent State University, 2016)
    • May 11, 2017 Review of Tiana Clark’s Equilibrium (Bull City Press, 2016)
    • May 4, 2017 Review of Joshua Jennifer Espinoza's There Should Be Flowers (CCM, 2016) and Sarah Messer's Dress Made of Mice (Black Lawrence Press, 2015)
    • May 3, 2017 Review of Claudia Cortese's Wasp Queen (Black Lawrence Press, 2016)
    • May 2, 2017 Review of Debora Kuan's Lunch Portraits (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016)
    • May 1, 2017 Review of francine j. harris’s play dead (Alice James, 2016)

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