Saturday, June 27, 2026 | 2:00 PM East Side Freedom Library In collaboration with the Community Digital Repository at ESFL Join us for an afternoon of reading, conversation, and fellowship with poet a...

Our flock of fabulous reviews this week includes Scaachi Khol on Jill Biden’s View From the East Wing, Lincoln Michel on Deb Olin Unferth’s Earth 7, Michael Faber on M. John Harrison&#8…

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i am the grandchild and great grandchild of rail workers. both of them porters of the sleeping car, both of them having demands placed up th...

Today, Deb Olin Unferth publishes her seventh book, Earth 7, an innovative science-fiction novel that animates the isolation, loneliness, and intimacy that comes with an incinerated planet and a popul...

A review of Questions 27 & 28, a new title by Karen Tei Yamashita that explores the experiences of Japanese Americans before, during, and after World War II.

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Make yourself new. Leave the past behind. That wasn’t you anyway.

no gallows walk, no gallows, no gall, no gal waking

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Podcast Episode · VerseCurious · May 7 · 10m

Fanny Howe’s posthumous epic poem reads like an intercepted signal that explores what is ‘Unlocatable and Hidden.’

A philosophically charged journey through the little-known world of leprosy and its victims.

Jeffrey Yang’s linked poems and Kazumi Tanaka’s tea-ink drawings search for a way home when return is impossible.

Daniel Moysaenko is a Ukrainian American poet, translator, and critic. His work has appeared in Chicago Review , Harvard Review , The Iowa ...

A late missive on my favorite poem of 2025

Check out Questions 27 & 28 - <p>In February 1942, shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order authorizing the secretary of war to remove 120,000 Japanes...

"Beyond this place, was there another into which the squids had vanished?"

In “Questions 27 & 28,” Karen Tei Yamashita opens an inquiry into how the story of the past gets made.

In “Questions 27 & 28,” Karen Tei Yamashita opens an inquiry into how the story of the past gets made.

Our review of M Lin's debut story collection, "The Memory Museum."