By Patricia Clark

It is hard not to recall the deft turns of Mary Oliver in Clark’s work—both...

By Jack Collom

"The fact that Collom invites the audience to take part in the work of the...

By Hollis Seamon

With deceptive quietness, Hollis Seamon's second collection of short stories, Corporeality, offers a penetrating look...

By Karen Houppert

“Like many Americans, neither Sean nor his family had given much thought to ‘public defenders’...

By Susan Steinberg

The female narrators in Susan Steinberg’s third short story collection, Spectacle, are direct. They confess....

By Michael Heller

Michael Heller’s poems, now available in their imposing entirety in This Constellation Is a Name,...

By Mario Susko

In The Final Take, Susko seeks to record something that puts to rest the aftereffects...

By Katherine Hill

Though reductive and imperfect, it’s not so inaccurate to describe good fiction as the conscientious...

By CJ Evans

Evans’s A Penance, though not perfect, challenges readers in a way that requires them to...

By Sarah Gerkensmeyer

Each of Gerkensmeyer’s thirteen stories envisions an altered reality, a place nearly identical to realistic...

By Wade Davis

A saline slurry of wastewater passes through rusted culverts and contaminated land, finally reaching the...

By Sally Keith

There is a set of instructions one should follow before reading Sally Keith’s The Fact...

By Jasmine Dreame Wagner

This poet is an interdisciplinary artist and the visual presentation of Listening for Earthquakes is...

By Forrest Gander & John Kinsella

While there may not fully be an answer to, “Can poetry be ecological?” Redstart is...