Katy Mongeau Black Sun Lit ($15) by Isabel Sobral Campos In Apostasy, Katy Mongeau’s lyric “I” is a miscreant in search of redemption. These two long poems read like narratives suspended over a tense allurement between wish-fulfillment and nightmare: You came to me with your hands all bloody. You said you killed the woman as […]
INTERVIEWS: Poetry Flowing Everywhere: An Interview with Trapeta B. Mayson The City of Philadelphia’s current Poet Laureate, Trapeta B. Mayson is a Liberian-born poet whose work focuses on the political and personal immigrant experience. Interviewed by John Wall Barger Poetry Breaks Through the Silence: A Conversation with Ed Bok Lee and Steve Healey Two Twin […]
Anna Gurton-Wachter Ugly Duckling Presse ($18) by Isabel Sobral Campos Utopia springs from our mammal form, from the conversation happening across distances, but also in proximity with whom we share a mode of being, a mood. Anna Gurton-Wachter’s debut poetry collection, Utopia Pipe Dream Memory, is a feminist affirmation of the multivocality of writing, the […]
INTERVIEWS Money is a Country: An Interview with Emily St. John Mandel Station Eleven author Emily St. John Mandel discusses her new novel, The Glass Hotel, which is partly based on the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme. Interviewed by Allan Vorda. All and Always Balance Kyle Harvey and Jeff Alessandrelli in Conversation Two poets discuss their […]