Poetry. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. In this new poetry collaboration from Kristina Marie Darling and Carol Guess, the real estate phenomenon of "home staging" becomes a metaphor for the illusion
Poetry. Religion & Spirituality. The dictionary definition of "hagiography" is a biography of a saint, but though some saints turn up here, Michael Joyce's A HAGIOGRAPHY OF HEAVEN AND VICINITY is more
Poetry. HOW GOD PUNISHES: Gives you the small prize. Mercifully you never learn of the big one. It is altogether fitting that these lines begin Katerina Stoykova's poetic meditation, for in 2014 th
Poetry. Like King Charles III's apocryphal diary entry from July 4, 1776 from which this book takes its title, these poems remind us that it is only from the perspective of time and distance that we c
Poetry. Film. California Interest. There is an iconic scene in Woody Allen's Purple Rose of Cairo when a character in the titular film steps off the screen to interact with a fan in the theatre, whose
Poetry. LGBT Studies. In his poem The Crows, an achingly poignant remembrance of his dying sister, William Reichard observes that 'Silence is the secret language in our family, the long gaps / between
Poetry. Jewish Studies. Women's Studies. The broken Aleph—first letter of the Hebrew alphabet—represents the chasm between the author, a secular Jew, and her cultural and religious heritage. The poems
Poetry. Thomas Zemsky draws on a lifetime of observation and five decades of writign poetry in this expansive survey of themes as diverse as a presidential inauguration and a letter from Frankenstein'
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. For sixty-nine days in 2010 the world held its collective breath while thirty- threemen were trapped deep in a copper mine in Chile. The story of their survival and resc
Poetry. Ethel Rosenberg and her husband Julius were executed in 1953 for passing "atomic secrets" to the Soviet Union—the only Americans condemned to death during the Red Scare. In this powerful verse
Poetry. The "snare" in Robert Eastwood's new poetry collection is the past, historical past interwoven with personal past, a web from which the poet cannot escape and into which the reader will tumble
Literary Nonfiction. For 500 years teachers and scholars have commended the practice of recording "commonplaces," that is, striking and noteworthy phrases encountered while reading for later reference
Poetry. California Interest. Poetry exists in the play of language, and the earnest playfulness in Jackie Berger's new collection begins in her title, where she speaks of "missing" an exit along life'
Poetry. How entirely appropriate that Richard Carr should give the title character of his new poetry collection, FITZPATRICK, a name so rich in historical associations of scandal and transgression. Fo
