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  • ADHD in a Non-ADHD World: on Undersight by Alison Hurwitz
    “[Hurwitz] shares moments of angst and moments of awe. More than that, there are moments of deep recognition. She sees herself in [her sons] and, in fact, receives a later-life ADHD diagnosis of her own.” Read the full chapbook review by new contributor, Nancy Murphy.
  • The Lines of Landscape: on Marie Scarles’ The Catastrophes
    “Scarles’ choice of title points away from place, and toward the book’s deeper and more powerful offering: a changed way of seeing, one of the hallmarks of any successful poetics.” Read the full chapbook review by contributing editor, D.W. Baker.
  • Bodies in Transition: Sacred & Perishable by Carissa Natalia Baconguis
    “There is a muscular intimacy to the ecosystem of these poems, each one of them creating as vivid a world individually as exists in the collection as a whole.” Read Gray Davidson Carroll’s full review.
  • Verses of Mourning: in the aftermath by Jessica Nirvana Ram
    “[Ram] presents a revealing and heartbreaking collection that asks the reader to think about what they remember the most about those they have lost.” Read Alex Carrigan’s full review.
  • Multilingualism and Metaphor: On Desire/Halves by Jaia Hamid Bashir
    “Bashir’s elegant debut collection investigates identity as the result of choices between individual appetites and cultural frames. … [It] announces an exciting addition to the global chorus of contemporary literature.” Read D.W. Baker’s full review.