Kareem Tayyar and the Complexities of Joy
I had my students study the work of Kareem Tayyar in my Introduction to Modern Poetry class this last semester, and in it we wrestled with the... Read more →
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Brantingham on Brantingham: The Art of Ann Brantingham
When I met Ann in our early twenties, she was studying architecture, doing good work in the estimation of my young eyes, and I asked her what it was... Read more →
John Brantingham: Flash Fiction
Orange You’re sitting on the back porch, peeling an orange, getting down to the deeply spiritual part of the orange, down where you can taste the... Read more →
Book Review: Tricks of Light by Thaddeus Rutkowski
What drew me into Tricks of Light, Thaddeus Rutkowski’s newest collection, was how he captures the universal sense of alienation that seems to be a... Read more →
Butterfly Alley
My favorite surprise in downtown Riverside is Butterfly Alley, which has surprised me several times. I forget it for a while and then I’ll be... Read more →
Brian Sonia-Wallace’s The Poetry of Strangers: What I Learned Traveling America with a Typewriter
Brian Sonia-Wallace’s mission and vision as a poet is beautiful and compelling. He is a full-time poet, and he is able to make a living writing... Read more →
Book Review: Open the Fist by Elya Braden
I meant to write the review of Elya Braden’s Open the Fist fairly quickly. It is after all a chapbook, and those generally take less time because... Read more →
Storylandia Issue 32, J. H. Malone’s Drunk on Time
I started reading science fiction when I was a teenager in the 1980s, and I subscribed to as many magazines as I could afford. What I liked about... Read more →
Millard Sheets and the Inland Valleys
It’s impossible to get away from the artistic influence of Millard Sheets especially in the Inland Valleys. Sheets was primarily a watercolorist... Read more →
Book Review: Prime Meridian by Connie Post
Connie Post’s newest poetry collection, Prime Meridian is more than just a book that investigates the ongoing life of a family that has been... Read more →
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