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Miracles big and small (though always unexplainable) animate the satirical, whimsical tales in this collection.
Gapinski’s gift is in treating strange situations matter-of-factly, testing characters with temptation.
Poem of the Week: flower aracelis girmay
aracelis girmay is a poet, editor, and teacher. Her new book of poems, GREEN OF ALL HEADS, is out this fall.
The Massachusetts Review-The Last Song of the World
Fasano is a poet of fatherhood, intimacy, friendship, love, and so much more, which is to say, he is a poet for the living, for life. Reading this, during a time of quotidian personal issues and large-scale problems, I thought of beginnings, not ends. And I will continue to rethink of the collection’s last lines: “the silence of any end or wreckage / is the same as the great and ancient silence / that comes before beginning starts to sing.”
"I reckon you are what you eat": Jennie Malboeuf on "jump the gun" with the Bicoastal Review
The Bicoastal Review's Marina Kraiskaya interviews Jennie Malboeuf on American intentions, animals as "windows to the divine", and raising a child to be neither a victim nor perpetrator of violence in this fraught country.
What Love Can Be: A Conversation with Keetje Kuipers on "Lonely Women Make Good Lovers"
The Poetry Foundation's Helena de Groot interviews Keetje Kuipers "on becoming a single mother by choice, gardening topless, and leaping without looking."
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