Never Turn Your Back on the Tide: Review
Never Turn Your Back on the Tide (Or, How I Married a Lying, Psychopathic Wannabe-Murderer and Kinda Lived to Tell)
by Kergan Edwards-Stout
Circumspect Press
Reviewed by...
“So there will be no distraction”: Poetry by Simon Perchik
Poetry
So there will be no distraction
you shower at night, your hands
kept cold as the same sound
snow breaks off bit by bit
whose only defense is...
He Lands in Palm Springs: Review
He Lands in Palm Springs
by John Shekleton
Mo Keijuk Press
Reviewed by Raymond Luczak
Considering the book’s premise of Father Joe Tierney, a defrocked Catholic priest living...
Howard: Review
Howard
Directed by Don Hahn
Disney+
Reviewed by Bruce Ward
The AIDS epidemic of the 1980s/1990s robbed the world of too many talented artists from all creative fields,...
Dan: Poetry by Larry Schulte
Dan
“when i want to kiss you, i kiss the ground.” Danez Smith
The language you spoke
from your hospital death bed
unintelligible to the rest of us.
Was...
The Other Passover: Review
The Other Passover
by Joseph F. Delgado
Ediciones El Laberinto/USA Distributor: Amazon.com
Reviewed by Hank Trout
The setting is now, the present. A mysterious disease nearly blankets the...
Pushcart Prize Nominees 2020
Puschart Prize Nominees 2020
Each year, the Pushcart Prize selection committee puts out a call to the small presses to submit their best work published...
Fag Hags, Divas and Moms on Audio
Fag Hags, Divas and Moms on Audio
The audio version of award-winning writer Victoria Noe’s Fag Hags, Divas and Moms: The Legacy of Straight Women...
Waiting on a Miracle: Poetry by Joe Bisicchia
Waiting on a Miracle
Will wine ever flow despite all the vinegar in my veins?
I know it shall arrive, the balm, whatever its welcoming face,
sure...
Poets for Life: Philip F. Clark on Why Writing Matters
Poets for Life
A&U’s New Poetry Editor on Why Writing Matters
by Philip F. Clark
“emaciation, grisly cancer,
no future, heart of gold,
passionate engagement with a great
B film,...