A review of Carolyn Nur Wistrand’s play, “She Danced with a Redfish.”
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Atlanta is Haven for Queer Black Culture and “Baptism by Fire” in “Fantasies of Future Things”
The codes of masculinity, gay or straight, play an important role in “Fantasies,” which draws upon moments of historical change to reveal the precarious position of the Black gay male at the turn of the century.
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Memoir “Rehearsals for Dying” Examines Ripple Effects of Cancer
A review of Ariel Gore’s memoir, “Rehearsals for Dying: Digressions on Love and Cancer.”
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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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“No Small Thing” Weaves the Many into the One
A review of Gabriel Fried’s poetry collection, “No Small Thing.”
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New Ecopoetry Pleads for Our Broken yet Enduring Planet
A review of “Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology,” edited by Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura Gray-Street.
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“Fragments” Is Filled with Want, Traverses through Heartbreak
Tsang has wonderful use of language and metaphor, melding together honest trains of thought and poetic emotion reminiscent of Ocean Vuong.
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Fluidity in History: Tara Roberts’ “Written in the Waters”
Reading Written in the Waters by Tara Roberts was a profound emotional journey into the heaviness of the past and how history moves fluidly into the beauty and problems of the present.
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The Humanity and Humor of “Origin Stories”
At a lecture she gave recently at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the world-renowned curator Ronni Baers juxtaposed images of two self-portraits: one by Gerrit Dou and one by Rembrandt. In the former, the artist sits within a grand imaginary niche, elegantly clutching the tools of his trade. A rich woven carpet hangs to…
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Mary Tyler Moore as Medium, Memoir
Clever and charming, “The Mary Years” offers stories of Julie Marie Wade’s challenges and triumphs juxtaposed with observations about lessons learned from Moore.
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