Swetha Amit
Society always emphasizes its notions about how a woman should be—a skinny body, pretty, etc. I now see the pendulum swinging back toward muscular bodies, and strong women are being embraced much more.
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Toti O’Brien
Cynthia Anderson’s The Missing Peace and Peter Liashkov’s Olga Liachkoff (Rage).
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Jennifer Cho Salaff
Schulman’s funny, sexy, and wide-ranging new collection, her first in more than twenty-five years, is comprised of ten stories — one new and nine published over the past three decades — about relationships, sex, love, female agency, and people’s fierce attachments to each other
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Toti O’Brien
Alexis Rhone Fancher’s “I Was a Mediocre Mother” and Melinda Smith Altshuler’s Moving, Not Moving.
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Rowan Tetro
Exploring the societal institutions that are founded on and perpetuate racism, white supremacy, and colonization, Lea’s book details her journey in moving beyond the racism ingrained in her family’s lineage and environment. Ultimately, American Bloodlines is about human connection and how kinship is our weapon against hate.
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Elissa Greenwald
Rosenfeld compares the narrator’s hearing difficulties to the silences engulfing people whose stories are lost to time… The narrator seeks to restore them, countering our current difficulty hearing or heeding the past.
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Toti O’Brien
Mother Memory is an art exhibit that will open at Wonzimer (Los Angeles, Lincoln Heights) on August 15, 2025. A related poetry-and-performance event will take place on August 22. The exhibit will include a selection of work from nine artists. The event will showcase the work of seven poets and three performers.
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Jason Masino
It’s always been my belief that writing is a political act, an act of resistance, however we decide to use our words to do so. Our writing should absolutely reflect society and our environments as an act of resistance.
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Douglas Cole
Daley's book is a reaching for clarity, a refining of vision to include those energetic threads that lie under the surface, perhaps unexamined, and to see those threads clearly for how they affect our understanding of this world and our place in it.
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Swetha Amir
Lives happen in shards, small and finite dramas, only slowly building up to a larger narrative. I didn't want to impose the narrative of a realistic novel on this life — that felt false.
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mk zariel
Traditional poetry is meant to be interpreted and analyzed; this book, however, fights back.
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Cheryl Sadowski
Brilliant Exiles is a reminder of the societal conditions that force artistic exodus and the incredible gifts that artists bring us when they are welcome at home.
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Forest Oliver
Consistently funny, violent, and perverse, Diane Cook’s writing skinny-dips between nihilism, and hope.
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Toti O'Brien
With my artwork (though it often incorporates text), I access areas where language doesn’t exist. Only action, reaction, flow, and observation do. When I am “in a zone,” I am not thinking consciously. If my mind intervenes and language enters the equation, I find the resulting work stale or ordinary, while my quest is to make the ordinary extraordinary.
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Carole Mertz
The opening poem in Swan’s Dandelion lets us join a person (we assume it is the author) in a canoe with a friend. The two lament the death of the friend’s son. Geese are flying so low their bodies are mirrored in the lake. One senses the violence of the movement as one also experiences the cutting expanse of grief that seems to spread across the lake. The poem forecasts a sober collection, despite the book’s bucolic title.
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Carolyn Wilson-Scott
Dutton is out to give us the American prairie, or what remains of it; climate catastrophe is never far in these pages, the first piece in the collection being set during the hottest week in recorded history
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Carolyn Wilson-Scott
A more conventional film would have stayed grounded in straight psychological realism, taking the viewer into Maddy and Owen’s world... But worlds are permeable in I Saw the TV Glow...
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Meredith MacLeod Davidson
If we are operating... in an absence of institutional and societal truth and reconciliation.... then all we have to sit with in the end is art, no matter what form it takes.
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