The entire section is a holy conversation within this one poet’s self. It charts a movement through grief, from fragmentation to connection.

In her struggle to find words, Almontaser has created a new language. In it, Shaytan and Power Rangers exist in the same line.

Watson manages to create poems with speakers who feel detached and involved in equal measures, thereby capturing the feeling that everything and nothing are happening all the time.

The stanzas are radiant, seeming capable of flight; unsentimental, yet stirring. Upon finishing the last page of Studies of Familiar Birds, my conclusion was that we needed more poems about bird nests.

Built to blast holes in the unwarranted hero worship by a surprising number of men of the Greek god Zeus, Stabile’s collection of 39 devastating poems chronicles the long aftermath of sexual assault.

These poems center on the experience of Black girlhood to motherhood in direct, taut language and demonstrate Zobitz’s strong formal range.

Smith demonstrates that the gospel can be used to deliver anger.

We are given no expectation that this young woman’s life, with seemingly so few opportunities for happiness, will turn out well. Nor does she seem to care.

At times it was frustrating to watch her fall into the same traps of getting too involved in her work. Nobody can conjure businesses from thin air! You’re going to burn out all over again! I would yell at her.

White Magic emerges as a collection that is not as much a “working through” as it is a “working with,” sifting through the fictions that shape, maim, and at times save us.

Here, flash fiction virtuoso Aimee Parkison returns to the novel form, her first in seven years.

Water is always rising in Andrew Siegrist’s Tennessee. It builds and builds until, finally, it floods.

For a poetry collection with the theme of female aging, could there be any form more apt than a hybrid collection?

Members of the Los Angeles Glass Table Collective consider the topic “late-stage writing” in the essay collection What Falls Away is Always: Writers Over 60 on Writing & Death.