Review by Art Beck

“Kossman’s poems evoke Joyce’s characterization of history as a maze of nightmares that his alter ego, Stephen Dedalus, is trying to escape.”

Review by Peter Mladinic

“Jeff Weddle is a poet who reads other poets. Jeff Weddle is a philosopher whose ideas come not out of books but out of lived lives, of friends of now and then, of family, and of people met along the way.”

Review by Kelsey Squire

“Through nuanced, precise, devastating language, Kandikuppa provides readers with stories of yearning and discovery that will remain with them long after finishing.”

Review by Hugh Blanton

“Israel Bonilla’s debut short story collection, Sleep Decades, is a feverish example of erudite style.”

Review by John Brantingham

“Janet Hall has much to recommend it. Courington’s language and sense of place in this Southern town are brilliant, but as someone who has lived this lifestyle for my entire adult life, her characterization is where she shines.”

Review by Jamilla VanDyke-Bailey

“In Bluff, Danez Smith (they/them) uses the full breadth of the poetic form to bring all of their complexities to a house of mirrors for an overdue conversation.”

Review by Laurie Nguyen

“In this fractured mess of a world, once you forgive someone, accountability no longer matters. Mateer’s question is the same one I echo to others: ‘What has forgiveness done except elongate the line of broken women in his path?'”

Review by Valerie Fox

“Right This Way excels as suburban comedy of manners, with a tinge of satire, a lightness that overlays a darkness and the presence of grief and great loss.”

Review by Brendan Rowland

“[Spiegel’s] collection exercises a razor gaze, analyzing and dissecting through images … sparse treatments express his childhood sense of being an imposter, and his conclusion communicates this uneasiness persists despite his new stage of life.”

Review by Nicholas Alexander Hayes

“About twenty years ago, I stole a translation of Jean Cocteau’s The White Book because the owner was homophobic. I suppose I believe (or at least hope) books find the right readers.”

Review by Peter Burzyński

Chelsea Tadeyeske is the progenitor of a type of anti-aphoristic aphorisms that are at first glance disparate thoughts strung together, but ultimately are deep, cutting, and brilliant interconnected jibes that paralyze and, paradoxically, entice.

Review by Valerie Fox

The flash fictions in Dan Crawley’s latest collection, Blur, seamlessly go back and forth between his characters’ pasts and presents, between calm and storm.