by Jehanne Dubrow | Feb 19, 2026 | Review
Stories of the Street Reimagining Found Texts Stories of the StreetBy David Lazar136 pp. Nebraska Press, $24.95Released November 2024 Recently, I taught a workshop in hybrid forms, focusing on the ways that prose and poetry must sometimes collide if...
by Shelli Spotts | Jan 14, 2026 | Review
What We Mean When We Talk About Squirrels A Few Contemplations on Points of Tangency Points of TangencyBy Scott Russell Morris226 pp. Cornerstone Press, $24.95Released September 2024 Squirrels are infrequent visitors to my yard in my little spot in...
by Juliet Way-Henthorne & Scott Russel Morris | Sep 20, 2025 | Review
Listening to the Silence Meditations on the Messy and the Mundane in A Year and a Day by Juliet Way-Henthorne A Year and A Day By Phillip Lopate 216 pp. New York Review Books, $17.95Released October 2023 In A Year and a Day, Phillip Lopate holds a mirror up to the...
by 4thgenre | Aug 8, 2024 | Review
Thoughts on Thot: Fragments, Echoes, Bullets, Hauntings Thot By Chanté L. Reid96 pp. Sarabande Books, $17.95Released October 2022 Chanté L. Reid’s Thot, though only 80 pages, is immense. Reid jam-packs the pages of her book-length essay in scope, emotion, thought,...
by 4thgenre | Aug 30, 2023 | Review
Precious Cargo A Review of Chris Arthur’s latest essay collection Hidden Cargoes By Chris Arthur232 pp. Eastover Press, $20.00Released October 2022 I have come all the way to New Orleans for this gumbo. It is nestled in a bowl in front of me, just shy of...
by 4thgenre | Aug 19, 2022 | Review
Glorious, Golden, and Contemporary On Phillip Lopate’s New Anthologies of the American Essay The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the PresentEdited by Phillip Lopate928 pp. Anchor, $20.00Released November 2020 The Golden Age of...
