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February 3rd, 2025
A Poet’s Foundation — A Review of “The Poet’s Guide to Publishing” by Katerina Stoykova
by Manuel J. Grimaldi
Katerina Stoykova, hailing from Burgas, Bulgaria, is an internationally recognized poet and the founder and senior editor of Accents Publishing in ...read the full piece >>Review
January 13th, 2025
Invoking a Greenery of Words — A Review of Tabish Nawaz’s “The Ornaments for Silence”
by Basudhara Roy
Tabish Nawaz hails from the state of Bihar in India and grew up in a multilingual community, avidly absorbing the linguistic and cultural repertoires ...read the full piece >>Review
December 30th, 2024
Longing for Home — A Review of “These Hollowed Bones” by Amelia Díaz Ettinger
by Joyce Bou Charaa
On her blog, Amelia Díaz Ettinger describes herself as a writer of poems and short stories “that reflect the struggle of identity found in ...read the full piece >>Review
December 16th, 2024
A True Poet of Her Daemon — A Review of “Recount and Prophecy” by Alexandra Fössinger
by Agnes Fodor
“Here” is where Alexandra Fössinger will stay — with Viola, to whom she dedicated her new poetry chapbook Recount and Prophecy (Alien Buddha Press, ...read the full piece >>Review
October 21st, 2024
Two Countries, One Life — A Review of “The In-Betweeners” by Khem K. Aryal
by Hantian Zhang
The In-Betweeners (Braddock Avenue Books, 2023) is a short story collection by Khem K. Aryal, a Nepalese writer and associate professor of creative ...read the full piece >>Review
September 23rd, 2024
A Wild Ride into Sri Lanka’s Conflicted Realities — A Review of “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida” by Shehan Karunatilaka
by Lisa Schantl
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Sort of Books, 2022) is the second book by Shehan Karunatilaka, a writer and musician born in Sri Lanka, educated in ...read the full piece >>Review
September 9th, 2024
Simple Verses For A Better Self — A Review of “Clarity and Connections” by Yung Pueblo
by Joyce Bou Charaa
Diego Perez, known as Yung Pueblo, is an American-Ecuadorian author and meditator. He gained great popularity through social media, especially on ...read the full piece >>Review
August 26th, 2024
A Transcript of the Unspeakable — A Review of “If My House Has a Voice” by Elina Katrin
by Sofija Popovska
Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, to a Russian mother and a Syrian father, Los Angeles-based poet and creative Elina Katrin weaves together diverse ...read the full piece >>Review
August 12th, 2024
For Progress, There is No Cure: Book Review on “The Maniac” by Benjamin Labatut
by Richard M. Cho
For centuries, faith and science have been adversaries. Churches long fought to debunk any scientific advances they saw as contradicting the Holy ...read the full piece >>Review
July 15th, 2024
The Poetics of Mortality and Memory — A Review of Lisel Mueller’s “Alive Together”
by Faith Manalili
It has been more than a hundred years since the poet and teacher Lisel Mueller was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1924. Her work, which spans nine ...read the full piece >>