I first encountered Neil Shepard on the page. I remember very much liking the poems. They were firmly inhabited with many of the same Robert Frost [...]
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Somewhere between defiance and diary lies JoAnna Novak’s Noirmania. Predominantly composed of a long poem in single-page sections, Novak’s debut poetry collection (she is also the [...]
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Fall, when fresh stacks of a wide variety of apples appear at the market, I luxuriate in the choice: Honey Crisps, Grannie Smiths, Gala, Delicious, Fuji, [...]
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Kiki Petrosino’s third collection, Witch Wife, begins with the self-reflexive invocation, “Self-Portrait.” This poem ranges its language from the opening line’s keening question, “Little gal, who [...]
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The stories collected in James Thomas and Robert Scotellaro’s stellar new anthology New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction (W.W. Norton, 2018) are all 300 words or less, [...]
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We are delighted to announce George Kalogeris as this year’s winner of the James Dickey Prize for Poetry. His poems will be published in the Volume 19, number 2 issue [...]
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