Jim Feast/Book Review

          border crossings by Thaddeus RutkowskiPaperback, 6″x9″96 pagesSensitive Skin BooksISBN: 978-1977850898$12.95   by Jim Feast There is a poem called “Border Crossings” in a new book of the same name by Thaddeus...

Hunger and Hallelujahs book review

  Hunger and Hallelujahs by Philip Elliott Fiction Big Pond Rumours Press, 2018 $10.00 (Canadian), 22 page ISBN: 978-0-9959662-3-9   Reviewed by Charles Rammelkamp The unnamed Irish girl at the heart of the nine flash fictions that make up Philip Elliott’s...

Henry Giroux’s Summer Critical Reading List

  Henry Giroux’s Critical Reads in the Age of the American Nightmare     By Henry A. Giroux Contributing Editor Ιt is hard to imagine a more urgent moment for developing a language of critique and possibility that would serve to awaken our critical and...

Paul Sohar on John Amen’s “… Overwhelm”

“Illusion of an Overwhelm” by John Amen New York Quarterly Books First Edition 72 Pages Paperback ISBN-10: 1630450480 ISBN-13: 978-1630450489   By Paul Sohar It was no illusion, but a real “overwhelm” that this reader experienced going over John Amen’s latest...

Judith Skillman/RD Armstrong Review

      Orphaned Words: Forgotten Poems from a Haphazard Life by RD Armstrong $20.00 USD + shipping, 246 pp   A Review by Judith Skillman In RD Armstrong’s Orphaned Words, we find a rare honesty, beginning with the poet’s forward: “If it weren’t for...