Lina Iris Viktor, Eleventh, 2018 Something used by someone else carries a history with it. A piece of cloth, a platter, a cut-glass pitcher, a recipe.…
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The Black Family Gets Its Own on Black Lightning
In 2003, Marvel Comics released Kyle Baker’s Truth: Red White and Black, an original, in-continuity graphic novel exploring the idea that before givi…
Kalamu Ya Salaam’s Be About Beauty:
Is it still Lion in Winter if there are no signs of frost? Kalamu Ya Salaam’s Be About Beauty arrived in our inboxes as we sent New Orleans Gri…
If We Could Just Be More Like Iowa
A review by Jeremy Tuman Many people understand that wealth inequality, the gap between the poorest and wealthiest members of a society, has dr…
Beyond The Magic Negro
Castle Rock’s Henry Deaver represents a major change I began reading Stephen King, at the age of 10. On a whim, I picked up his novel, IT during a lib…
The Power of Transgressing the Confines: A Review of Matchbook Vol. 4 from Small Fires Press
Matchbook Vol. 4 (Small Fires Press, 2017) Guest edited by Jessica Elsaesser Especially for poets, communicating ideas on the page often becomes the w…
As Hard-Edged and Challenging as a Bone: Ken Foster on Eileen Myles’ AFTERGLOW (A DOG MEMOIR)
**Editor’s note: RM220 presents Eileen Myles at 8 p.m. on Thursday, November 16, at Saturn Bar (3067 St. Claude Avenue).** “You’ll get ano…
Let me into your grief: A review of Cassie Pruyn’s LENA
Lena Cassie Pruyn Texas Tech University Press, 2017 [Editor’s note: Cassie Pruyn will read with Ben Aleshire at Saturn Bar (3067 St. Claude Avenue) at…
Possibility as an exercise of analysis: A review of Spree MacDonald’s MILKSOP CODICIL
Milksop Codicil Spree MacDonald Slapering Hol Press, 2017 “Milksop,” meaning cowardly or indecisive person; and “codicil,” a legal addendum which in s…
Parsing the Relationship Between Sensibility and Memory: A review of Paul Killebrew’s TO LITERALLY YOU
To Literally You Paul Killebrew Canarium Books, 2017 Space, Henri Lefebvre writes in The Production of Space, is “a whole set of errors, a complex of …