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For his blog Streams of Expression, poet, publisher and scholar David Grundy writes about the work of Alli Warren, whom he calls "one of the best Anglophone lyric poets around."...

Twenty-one years after the publication of City Terrace Field Manual (Kaya Press, 1996) Sesshu Foster's City of the Future reveals new angles from which we can view his hometown of...

"An active literary presence in Trinidad with her exciting, original verse, [Shivanee] Ramlochan’s work examines, among other things, Caribbean identity and the fabric of modern Caribbean society, and she [was] shortlisted for...

Theater critic Helen Shaw writes about the poetry found in the film The Rest I Make Up, which centers on the friendship between director Michelle Memran and the playwright Maria Irene Fornes. "The film...

Yoon is the author of A Cruelty Special to Our Species (Harper Collins, 2018) which hit bookstore shelves this week. In the collection, Yoon meditates on her lived experience as a Korean...

Alexandra Naughton reviews Premonitions (Wayne State University Press, 2018), by Elizabeth Schmuhl, for Fanzine. "'I stopped using the internet years ago,' opens Premonitions. Schmuhl continues the thought in the next line of the...

I’m not one to go digging around in old dirt, but sometimes you find good bones.

Steven Lavoie reports from Petaluma, California, where he ventured to pay tribute to the late poet David Bromige as part of the annual Petaluma Poetry Festival, where If Wants To Be...

Contributors to the September 2018 issue share some recommendations.