Lethal Theater – Susannah Nevison
An exploration of capital punishment and the prison system in America, how incarceration is turned into a spectacle at the expense of the humans who are trying to make that of that system a grim home.
You Darling Thing – Monica Ferrell
As I reread the poems in Ferrell’s YOU DARLING THING in this unprecedented moment, I see her lines anew, perhaps as they have always been
MINOR DETAIL itself is an act of subversion because it represents history told on Palestinian terms, through a Palestinian voice.
Artificial Gut Feeling – Anna Zett
Digital systems are not just tools or extensions of our brains, but they are parodies of us, our goals, beliefs, dreams, passions, and cognitions.
OLDER BROTHER itself attests to grief’s power as a catalyst for creativity.
The poet is someone who facilitates the articulation of dissent.
Machines In The Head – Anna Kavan
Her stories feel prescient today; they capture the madness and degradation of isolation and living in a ravaged world.
Szabo’s ABIGAIL is a moral — though not moralizing — book.
The Dominant Animal – Kathryn Scanlan
We are all the more at the mercy of writers like Scanlan who provide new ways of seeing what has already been seen.
Lake Like a Mirror – Ho Sok Fong
The business of dehumanizing people and pushing them off the part of the earth that can be shared with other humans, is mostly the pretty mundane.