Through leaps and revelations, the speaker of Angela Ball’s poems in her new collection, “Steeplechase,” shows how the boundaries between places don’t really separate them but shape how they come into relation with one another.
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An Ecofeminist Genesis, Painted Over and Made New
To dominate is intimacy’s opposite in Rebecca Gayle Howell’s “Erase Genesis.”
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A Poet Longs for Home in “Entered Some Aliens”
A review of Siew Hii’s “Entered Some Aliens.”
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“Of Water Never Ceasing” Expands Our Understanding of Pain
A review of Kristin Entler’s debut poetry collection, “Of Water Never Ceasing.”
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The Poems in “Reverse Requiem” Juice with Life
A review of Ina Cariño’s sophomore poetry collection, “Reverse Requiem.”
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2026 Southern Summer Book Club Kickoff
Join us for the first book of our Southern Summer Book Club, the poetry collection “Night Owl” by Aimee Nezukumatathil.
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Girlhood is Something Fierce and Bruising in “I’ll Take My Body To Go”
Girlhood is cracked open to glisten in Kindall Fredericks’ electrifying new collection, “I’ll Take My Body to Go”
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A Conversation on Grief, Sonnets and Ekphrasis with D.S. Waldman and Austin Araujo
An interview with poet D.S. Waldman on his recent collection, “Atria.”
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Fabulist and Sincere: Burnside Soleil’s “Berceuse Parish”
A review of Burnside Soleil’s debut poetry collection, “Berceuse Parish.”
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“A Love Tap”: A Tender, Visceral Debut
At the core of this collection is Wade’s complex relationship with his father, whose presence is at once both painful and familiar.
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