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Nicole Sealey – Week 26 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 an exquisite … Continue reading
Alison Fure – Week 19 Chapbook Chart 2020
Paths are a form of separation between us and modern life. They separate us from traffic. They flow like water to provide us with natural shortcuts and desire lines. They can allow for a continuity of gardens and be good … 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 16 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 … Continue reading
Shellley Duffy – Week 15 Chapbook Chart 2020
A Breath I Cannot Take recounts a heartbreaking yet familiar story of the poet’s downward spiral into a deep pit of depression and anxiety. The triggers of domestic violence and family tragedies escalating into drug abuse and debt are not unique … Continue reading
Jeffrey Thomas – Week 14 Chapbook Chart 2020
Three stories, originally published separately, brought together for the first time…to detail the summoning of a god-like entity from beyond space and time into the vulnerable realm of humans. DRAWING NO. 8 – In the far-future colony of Punktown, inhabited … Continue reading
Seth Seong – Week 13 Chapbook Chart 2020
City, Ruby is a chapbook with an existential look inside the modern city persona – a life affected by ever-accelerating technology and the inhumane perception against the poor and working. But under it all, there are moments of pure human connection … Continue reading
Seth Seong – Week 12 Chapbook Chart 2020
City, Ruby is a chapbook with an existential look inside the modern city persona – a life affected by ever-accelerating technology and the inhumane perception against the poor and working. But under it all, there are moments of pure human connection … Continue reading
Caroline Furr – Week 11 Chapbook Chart 2020
Caroline Furr studied for a Master of Arts degree in sculpture from California State University and her art has since graced Texas, Los Angeles, Barcelona, Philadelphia. http://carolinefurr.com/ Foreigners have the hungriest of senses. Arriving somewhere new there is the immediate … Continue reading
Seth Seong – Week 10 Chapbook Chart 2020
City, Ruby is a chapbook with an existential look inside the modern city persona – a life affected by ever-accelerating technology and the inhumane perception against the poor and working. But under it all, there are moments of pure human connection … Continue reading
