In the introduction to Useful Knowledge, Keith Waldrop utilizes Vygotsky’s Thought & Language positing that Stein’s repetitive portraits…   more →

In Sawako Nakayasu’s newest collection of poems there are balconies and there is hockey, there is heat (the word not the substance), and there is love…   more →

On her blog, wordstrumpet: Scenes From a Life Ruined by Poetry, Rachel Loden writes, “It’s tempting to feel like Rip Van Winkle…”  more →

Miranda Mellis’ The Re:Visionist begins with portentous silence. The type of silence one imagines as the “calm before a storm,”….  more →

The book progresses from one get together to the next with the broad setting changing from New York, both small towns and city, to Florida and then…  more →