I Want Love So Great It Makes Nicholas Sparks Cream In His Pants, by Calvero A very large and ongoing conversation regarding poetry is: what should a poem do or be? Despite the many…
The Information Crusher, by John Colasacco Many of our stories follow a certain structure, one that feels as though it fits with causality, or rather what we wish causality meant. But slipping out from…
Baho! by Roland Rugero There is something enchanting about the dichotomy of simultaneous simplicity and complexity. The intertwining of the two, I believe, creates some of the best writing ever made. In a time…
Arcade by Drew Nellins Smith It is difficult to try and explain what Drew Nellins Smith’s debut novel, Arcade, is about. At its most basic level, the novel follows the unnamed narrator who refers…
The Hermit by Lucy Ives Solitude. The first thought that this concept strikes within me is one of solemn and despondent feelings. Of hopelessness, the sheer and unbearable weight of being alone in the…
Neon Green by Margaret Wappler Most any reader can come up with a circumstance in which descriptions cannot do a novel justice. When I was asked to review Margaret Wappler’s Neon Green, I was…
John Travolta Considers His Odds by Emily Hunt Emily Hunt is a poet based in Los Angeles, and like many before her, has set her sights upon it–and its milieu–in her debut chapbook titled,…
Zero to Three by F. Douglas Brown Zero to Three makes parenting, life, and death relevant to the reader’s life through words that bring the feeling of a moment in time in one’s life…
Mighty Mighty, by Wally Rudolph It is easy to point out that the stories we tell each other are, at least in part, signs of the times in which we live. Our fears and…
Atta by Jarett Kobek In the United States of America, it would seem that polarization is the order of the day. Beliefs that make it onto the Internet through social media are thoroughly scrutinized…
A Bestiary by Lily Hoang Review by Katharine Coldiron “A pack of dogs. A swarm of insects. A mischief of rats. / You desire the human equivalent.” So reads one of many fragments in Lily…
I Am A Season That Does Not Exist In The World By Kim Kyung Ju I Am A Season That Does Not Exist In The World is Korean poet Kim Kyung…