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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.”

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.

The Poetry Foundation's Helena de Groot interviews Keetje Kuipers "on becoming a single mother by choice, gardening topless, and leaping without looking."

Durham writer Nathan Dixon’s short story collection debut, “Radical Red,” imagines Tea Party conservatives who find their ideological contradictions collapsing in on them. It couldn’t be more timely.

We are proud to share a thought-provoking review from Sundress Reads of the award-winning poetry collection "Transitory" by Subhaga Crystal Bacon. Bacon's collection is illuminating and insightful, drawing readers in and giving a voice to the unheard members of the trans community. Grounded in protest and solidarity, Subhaga Crystal Bacon’s Isabella Gardner Award-winning "Transitory" is a collection of elegies memorializing 46 transgender and gender-nonconforming people murdered in the US and Puerto Rico in 2020.  Epistolary in nature, these commemorative poems are “gleaned sketches” attempting to reconstruct lives and deaths from the typically scarce information made available on the internet. Interspersed with the...