A Certain Place in the World: An Interview with Jen Hirt (by Curtis Smith)
Poetry and creative nonfiction are both about associations.
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Review: This Side of Sad by Karen Smythe (reviewed by Nisha Mody)
Smythe’s narrations about love, loss, loneliness, and time and are vivid.
Review: Saved by the Dead by Robert Cooperman (reviewed by Charles Rammelkamp)
Reviving the memory of the Grateful Dead, Robert Cooperman’s Saved by the Dead is a love song to more than the band, but to the fleeting nature of youth as well, his own.
Review: The Book of Sharks by Rob Carney (reviewed by Leonard Kress)
It is surely an act of chutzpah or orneriness to write an entire book of poems about sharks.
Flash Fiction: Various Histories of Sea Serpents by Anita Goveas
No one talks about what Nana keeps in the basement.
Running Wild: An Interview with Lisa Diane Kastner by Curt Smith
The world has so many great stories, and to limit the tales based on what readers may want, instead of offering them fresh slices of life through story, is a huge mistake.
Review: The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist: A Novel by Michael Downs (reviewed by Michael Blackburn)
The novel is worth reading for its poetry, its structure that floats and fades and reforms and dissolves, and for its willingness to allow realism and ambiguity of character.
Fiction: Rideshare by Jen Knox
When the yellow car hit us, it hit us like a kiss and pulled back slowly.
Review: This Darkness Got to Give by Dave Housley (reviewed by Joseph Crespo)
In a way that may be reminiscent of the loving spirit one would bring to a Dead show, Housley treats every character as an emotional being.
Flash Fiction: Saint Florian’s Sanctuary by Brianne M. Kohl
You’re talking too much. Girls always talk too much. It’s why I never win the game.
