The Trembling Hand – Mathelinda Nabugodi
Nabugodi resists both melodrama and academic neutrality. Her approach is closer to a physics of feeling
The Sleeping Land – Ella Alexander
Alexander reminds us that the human experience is bound to a rich history, and not just a matter of individual experience.
[World Poetry Books; 2025] Tr. from the German by Ann Cotten and Anna-Isabela Dinwoodie On the nine-hour train ride back to Berlin from Vienna, a young man takes the seat next to me. He asks whether I think it’s safe to leave a suitcase back by the train’s entrance, out of sight from our seats. […]
Patchwork: A Sewist’s Diary – Maddie Ballard
… Of all art forms, clothing is particularly close to the self.
Algarabía – Roque Raquel Salas Rivera
His hero does not fight monstrous beings, but those who marginalize him as monstrous.
Arcticologies – Lowell Duckert
Reading it feels like scooping wet snow with a large shovel on an unseasonably warm winter morning
Berlin Atomized – Julia Kornberg
We can’t use irony to cope with catastrophe forever.
Bodies Found in Various Places – Elvira Hernández
Hernández offers readers a poetry of survival and disturbance, but only as much as we can cup in our hands.
Hymn to Moray Eels – Mireille Best
Why love a boy just on the basis of his boy-ness?
Natural History – Brandon Kilbourne
As much as natural history is a history of disappearances and extinctions, it is also a repository of evolutions and potentials.
The Sleeping Land – Ella Alexander
Alexander reminds us that the human experience is bound to a rich history, and not just a matter of individual experience.
Natural History – Brandon Kilbourne
As much as natural history is a history of disappearances and extinctions, it is also a repository of evolutions and potentials.
[World Poetry Books; 2025] Tr. from the German by Ann Cotten and Anna-Isabela Dinwoodie On the nine-hour train ride back to Berlin from Vienna, a young man takes the seat next to me. He asks whether I think it’s safe to leave a suitcase back by the train’s entrance, out of sight from our seats. […]
Berlin Atomized – Julia Kornberg
We can’t use irony to cope with catastrophe forever.
Ṣẹ̀gílọlà Arómirẹ́ Ògìdán – Àrẹ̀mọ Yusuf Àlàbí Balógun
Her anger lives in the syntax, in sentences that run long, breathless, or suddenly halt.
The Porno President – Bruna Kalil Othero
“Tits or ass?” Othero’s novel urges us to consider this question in today’s political landscape