Review: Learning to Love the Feel of Words in The Braille Encyclopedia
“I grew up in a nest feathered with words, texts, and books,” Naomi Cohn writes in the first essay of her lyrical debut memoir, The Braille Encyclopedia: Brief Essays on […]
Review: Jasmine Sawers’ The Anchored World Is an Eerie, Haunting Voyage
Like the very best tangled and violent folklore passed down to us, Jasmine Sawers’s The Anchored World: Flash Fairy Tales and Folklore, (Rose Metal Press), is eerie and beautiful. A […]
Book Review: A Kind of Poetry, The Fact of Memory, by Aaron Angello
The Fact of Memory: 114 Ruminations and FabricationsBy Aaron AngelloRose Metal Press In a piece titled “Think,” Aaron Angello tells of two conversations about what makes a poem a poem. In […]
Interview: Pigeon English: A Talk with Author Kathleen Rooney
Chicago writer Kathleen Rooney recently released her latest novel, Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey. A fictional retelling of the true story of World War I’s “Lost Battalion” (though mostly regarding […]
Monster Portraits is Charmingly Inscrutable
Monster Portraits is refreshingly original, starting with its unusual form. It’s a collaborative effort between brother and sister duo Del Samatar and Sofia Samatar: Del sets the foundation of the […]