Katherine Haake’s What Happened Was captures the unsettling atmosphere of a post-apocalyptic world, a feeling that resonates profoundly in the aftermath of the 2019 pandemic. While Americans may have experienced the crisis with the comforts…
We live in a time in which women’s autonomy, especially bodily autonomy, is the subject of debate and conflict. An optimistic perspective would point out that real progress has been made, and that women probably…
Elusive Love, Loss, and Healing in the Electrifying Story of Psychiatric Treatment As a writer who suffers from a mental disorder, I was immediately drawn to The Electric Love Song of Fleischl Berger, by David…
The World’s Largest Cherry Pie is Sophie Appel’s debut poetry collection, released by Los Angeles alt lit heir, Dream Boy Book Club. Cherry Pie is an inversion of Alexa Chung’s 2013 work It, illustrating Appel’s…
Collection translated to English by Isabel Sobral Campos and Kristofer J. Petersen-Overton The phrase “echoing through time” and its variants are usually employed to describe something with historical significance, something that is believed to have…
Review by Frank Mundo: When I received “Paper Birds: Feather by Feather / Pájaros de papel: Pluma por pluma,” the latest poetry collection by bilingual writer and poet Sonia Gutiérrez from El Martillo Press (April…
I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom by Kim Dower Review by Brian Sonia-Wallace There are few things more classically Freudian than autobiographical poems about a poet’s relationship with their mother, and this…
Brittany Menjivar’s Parasocialite: Taking “It” Instead of “Making It” Book Review by Emily K. Sipiora Brittany Menjivar’s literary debut, Parasocialite, is a definitive portrait of a post alt-lit cultural landscape that challenge’s the genre’s effete…
Poetry Collection by Nicelle DavisReview by John Venegas “Deconstruction” is a word that gets thrown around a lot, both inside and outside academic settings. At the risk of being reductive, it is the practice of…
Collection by Sawako NakayasuReview by John Venegas There are times where it feels strange that we consider “raising more questions than it answers” as a mark against something. Granted, that phrase is often meant to…
Poetry by Matt SedilloReview by Frank Mundo I was watching Disney’s “Encanto” with the kids when the mail arrived with Matt Sedillo’s new book of poetry, “City on the Second Floor” from FlowerSong Press, and…
In a world already beset by far too many binaries, the false dichotomy of order and chaos may be the most dangerous. Whether on the socio-political scale, where championing “law and order” is a not-so-subtle…