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Mary Ruefle – Week 36 Chapbook Chart 2020
“It is impossible for me to write about the imagination; it is like asking a fish to describe the sea,” Mary Ruefle announces at the start of her essay. With wit and intellectual abandon, Ruefle draws inspiration from Wittgenstein, Shakespeare, … Continue reading
Lydia Davis – Week 35 Chapbook Chart 2020
The Cows is a close study of the three much-loved cows that live across the road from her. The piece, written with understated humor and empathy, is a series of detailed observations of the cows on different days and in different … Continue reading
Lydia Davis – Week 34 Chapbook Chart 2020
The Cows is a close study of the three much-loved cows that live across the road from her. The piece, written with understated humor and empathy, is a series of detailed observations of the cows on different days and in … Continue reading
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Tagged A.M. Juster, Chris O’Carroll, Faeza Shahan, Frank Hubeny, Khaled Mattawa, LindaAnn LoSchiavo, Lydia Davis, Marcus Bales, Marilyn L. Taylor, Mark B. Hamilton, Mary Ruefle, Michael R. Burch, ned drew, Nicole Sealey, Noah Patterson, Noam D. Plum, paul sternberger, Robin Helweg-Larsen, Sandra Cisneros, Vera Ignatowitsch
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Noah Patterson – Week 33 Chapbook Chart 2020
Curse of the Flying Dutchman is a stand-alone short adventure module for the Micro Chapbook Sci-Fi RPG. This adventure can be played on its own or as part of any current adventure or campaign. This book includes the rules basics, … Continue reading
Ama Codjoe – Week 32 Chapbook Chart 2020
Blood of the Air creates a new mythology, repurposing spectacle, stereotype, and song. Inspired by the fictions and frictions of the past, each poem in this collection complicates the next. Lush lyrical moments give way to fracture, vulnerability, and reinvention. … Continue reading
Nicole Sealey – Week 24 Chapbook Chart 2020
At turns humorous and heartbreaking, The Animal After Whom Other Animals Are Named explores in both formal and free verse what it means to die, which is to say, also, what it means to live. In this collection, Sealey displays … Continue reading
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Thiahera Nurse – Week 22 Chapbook Chart 2020
Some Girls Survive on Their Sorcery Alone works as ode and requiem to document the precious narratives held inside the body of a black girl. Opening with declarations of self-love, beauty, eulogy, and Lil’ Kim rapping in the rain, the landscape … Continue reading
Joseph Massey – Week 18 Chapbook Chart 2020
In his chapbook, Present Conditions, Joseph Massey writes that “the weather within / is the weather without.” His poems chronicle a difficult winter where the universe grows colder, his speaker taking all day to “filter out the debris of a … Continue reading
Yusef Komunyakaa – Week 17 Chapbook Chart 2020
The poems in Night Animals, by Yusef Komunyakaa, climb so deeply into the being of various beasts, from cricket to leopard to snowy owl, that we read them with an uncanny shiver of recognition. Without ever fully abandoning his human skin, … Continue reading
