Christopher Kempf is the author of What Though the Field Be Lost (LSU, 2021) and Late in the Empire of Men (Four Way, 2017). Recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a National Endowment…
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Be Holding, Ross Gay’s fourth full-length collection published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, is…
Nate Marshall’s Finna, named one of the best books of 2020 by National Public Radio, centers language—its utility, power, possibility—and seeks to realize the vitality that words possess for the people who…
In honor of the contributions renowned poet Gregory Djanikian (b. 1949) has made to the…
Ghinwa Jawhari is a Lebanese-American writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Her debut chapbook ‘BINT’ was selected by Aria Aber for the Own Voices Chapbook Prize from Radix Media. Her poetry, prose, and…
Hometown, Dispossessed: A Review of Kazim Ali’s Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water
Writing about the place where you grew up can be a fraught endeavor. Our hometowns…