A review of Ariel Gore’s memoir, “Rehearsals for Dying: Digressions on Love and Cancer.”
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The Best Southern Books of April 2025
Check out this roundup of new Southern releases with a special focus on poetry for April!
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“When The Horses”: A Study in the Nomenclature of Normalcy
In the spirit of Jane Kenyon, Mary Helen Callier’s poems inhabit spaces of tension. The body, landscape, and time all become sites of reckoning.
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New Poetic Forms Bewitch in Book of Potions
A review of Lauren K. Watel’s collection of hybrid poetic forms.
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Humanity at the Margins of Capitalism: An Interview with Joshua Pollock
An interview with Joshua Pollock about his poetry collection “Narcan Incantations.”
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Just Like The Best of The Blues, This Novel Is Frenetic, Yearning, and Pulsing With Hope
Callie Collins’ “Walk Softly on This Heart of Mine” is all about belonging, longing, and the shared intimacy of the blues.
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Quit Lit: A Reading List
SRB editor Anna Harris-Parker rounds up some resources for making a major transition out of academia.
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Kathleen Driskell Tends to Mortality in “Goat-Footed Gods”
A review of Kathleen Driskell’s “Goat-Footed Gods.”
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“No Small Thing” Weaves the Many into the One
A review of Gabriel Fried’s poetry collection, “No Small Thing.”
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Two Hurricanes: Family Secrets Surface in the Wake of Katrina in “Behind the Waterline”
In New Orleans, floodwaters don’t just expose pipes and studs inside of walls — they can expose family secrets, too.
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