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Announcing Monthly Book Reviews!
“Phoebe is pleased to announce the publication of monthly book reviews beginning this November! Phoebe looks for reviews of literary prose and poetry titles which are recent, forthcoming, or deserving...
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One with the Tiger: The Animal Within
One with the Tiger Steven Church Soft Skull Press, 2016 ISBN: 978-1593766504 Think of the last time you went to the zoo. This is how I recall my most recent visit. An oppressively hot and humid summer...
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Book Review: Imagine Not Drowning
Imagine Not Drowning by Kelli Allen C&R Press January 2017 978-1-936196-68-5 “Hands,” “mouth,” “time,” “body.” “Fingers, skin, story, touch.” “Come close.” “Know me.” These words appear most...
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6 Kickass Stories to Kick Off Your ‘Read More’ New Year’s Resolution
6 Kickass Stories to Kick Off Your ‘Read More’ New Year’s Resolution by Lina Patton I get it. It’s hard to find time to read. Even as someone who has dedicated their life to books— the reading of...
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Book Review: The Uneaten Carrots of Atonement
Sherry Chandler The Uneaten Carrots of Atonement. by Diane Lockward Wind Publications ISBN 978-0-9969871-1-0 Those who come to Diane Lockward’s The Uneaten Carrots of Atonement expecting her usual...
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Book Review: In Which I Play the Runaway
Madeleine Wattenberg In Which I Play the Runaway Rochelle Hurt Barrow Street Press, 2016 ISBN 978-0-9973184-2-5 Recently, I’ve been thinking a lot about the differences between establishing voice...
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Book Review: The Brand New Catastrophe
The Brand New Catastrophe Mike Scalise Sarabande Books, 2017 260 pp. The writer who chooses memoir as a medium faces a daunting challenge: to ground himself in the personal—in a specific, unique,...
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Book Review: The Missing Girl by Jacqueline Doyle
The Missing Girl Jacqueline Doyle Black Lawrence Press, 2017 ISBN: 978-1-62557-983-6 When it comes to narratives on missing and abducted girls, we normally explore titillating, abhorrent, and violent...
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Book Review: SFWP Annual: Selections from the SFWP Quarterly
SFWP Annual: Volume 1 Selections from the SWFP Quarterly Editor: Melanie J. Cordova Contributors: Samantha Edmonds, “How to Be” Kelli Jo Ford, “Terra Firma” Sadie Hoagland, “Dementia, 1692” Randon...
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A Review of “Meet Me Here at Dawn” by Anatoly Molotkov
Meet Me Here at Dawn by Sophie Klahr YesYes Books, December 1, 2016 ISBN: 978-1-936919-42-0 Reviewed by Anatoly Molotkov Sophie Klahr doesn’t offer much biographical information on her website,...
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A Review of “Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting” by Jonathan Maule
Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting Kevin Powers Little, Brown and Company, April 1, 2014 Reviewed by Jonathan Maule The Weight of What Remains: A Review of Kevin Powers’ Letter Composed...
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Horror With Authenticity: Stephen Graham Jones’ The Only Good Indians
Timothy Johnson We who like the scary, dark, and macabre tend to leap at the chance to claim a successful piece of literature or film as one of our own. We revel when a work of horror writhes its way...
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Timelessness & Innovation in Tracy Zeman’s Empire
Ana Pugatch Tracy Zeman’s debut collection, Empire (Parlor Press, 2020), contains the hallmarks of a skilled ecopoet: an expansive scientific lexicon and a tendency to eschew the didactic, for...
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Imagination as Inheritance in Lilly Dancyger’s Memoir Negative Space
Lena Crown In the dedication to Lilly Dancyger’s debut memoir, Negative Space, out from the Santa Fe Writers Project this May, she writes, “For my father, Joe Schactman. And for everyone living with...
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Writing from the Body: Felicia Rose Chavez’s’ The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop
Shabrayle Setliff The statement that everyone writes from the body could serve as a litmus test: if such a statement seems untrue or if it is, perhaps, unfelt, it may very well indicate a person’s...
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Bradley Bazzle Writes Unique Fiction With Familiar Skin in New Collection
Tim Johnson Bradley Bazzle describes his new fiction collection, Fathers of Cambodian Time-Travel Science, as an “alchemical mixture of realism and complete bullshit.” As I read it, I decided I...
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Correlatives: A Review of W. Todd Kaneko’s This is How the Bone Sings
Christian Stanzione I was a natural reader for W. Todd Kaneko’s The Dead Wrestler Elegies, a book that examines the pageantries of professional wrestling to access and discuss his relationship with...
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Emily Austin’s Debut Novel and Being Dead Someday
Melissa Wade The cover of Emily Austin’s debut novel presents visual insight into the book’s core dichotomy. In a design by Kelli McAdams, lollipop-colored rabbits bound with life in neatly spaced...
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Our Last Blue Moon: Dance of Love
Martin Mitchell Will it come like a change in the weather?Will its greeting be courteous or rough?Will it alter my life altogether?O tell me the truth about love.—W.H. Auden I thought of these lines...
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LeVar Burton Gives a Powerful Voice to His Visionary 1997 Post-Apocalyptic Novel
Timothy Johnson If you’re a child of the ’80s like me, LeVar Burton may have been an important part of your formative years. Whether you tuned into Star Trek: The Next Generation every week, kept up...
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