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By Charles Rammelkamp
In “comic book plots & origin stories,” the first of the eight-seven pieces – poems, prose poems, flash, prose essays – that make up Gary Jackson’s impressive new afrofuturistic collection, he notes that “we’re all such small things compared to the history beneath us.” Though a force for change, the superhero faces extreme odds, the no...
By Greg Bem
before the lights came on
our eyes were freckled darkness before
sounds took shape
we were angels in an archway
pierced with long and diligent horns
(from “Inlet,” page 69)
An examination of myth. A process of embodiment and disembodiment. An essay that is lyrical and diminishing of lyric. This is the book that is provided,...
By Lynette G. Esposito
Let’s get philosophical when reading Lotus in the Tide by Karan Kapoor published by Hawakal Publishers, New Delhi, Calcutta, Florida. His short poems evoke thoughtful insights that suggest and question perceptions of now we conduct ourselves and even the meaning of why we exist.
For example, on page fifteen, Kapoor...
By John Zheng
Where do you live? is a poetry book in translation. It is necessary to applaud Arrowsmith Press for publishing it. The language of poetry, unlike other art forms of music, painting, or sculpture, tends to “separate peoples instead of uniting them,” as T. S. Eliot said in his Nobel banquet speech seventy-seven years ago. Here, Eliot’s use ...
By Tom Brown
Patsy Asuncion’s third poetry collection, A Universal Belonging, was released in August 2025 by Kelsay Books. It is a soul stirring collection of eighty-two poems and twenty-eight epigrams that searches for the interconnectedness that transcends human divisions and offers a sense of belonging in nature by contrasting human conflict and natural harm...
