Conflict, Discovery and Reflection: Kelly McQuain’s Collection of Poems on Perspective and Identity
Kelly McQuain’s Scrape the Velvet from Your Antlers is his debut collection of poems that follows the chronology of a […]
Transformative Ways of Walking
In Ways of Walking, Philadelphia author Ann de Forest brings together 26 writers to reflect on some of the most […]
Started from The Bottom, Now We’re Here
When a ball is hit in polo, its path creates an imaginary line down the field that cannot be crossed. […]
Right This Way into a Thorny, Jungle-Viney Tangle of Human Dealings
Ely Cutter, the central figure of Miriam N. Kotzin’s often hilarious suburban dramedy, Right This Way, tells us that he […]
Hidden Pictures Gives Readers a Chance to Solve the Mystery
The horror novel Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak begins by following the recovery of ex-addict and Philadelphian Mallory Quinn to […]
The Past, Present and Potential Future for Humanity and Technology
In 2020, independent author D.H. Schleicher released his first short story collection, And Then We Vanish, which navigated “waves of […]
Carmilla and ‘Bearing Shame’: How Annotations Enhance a Work
The subject matter of Joseph Sheridan LeFanu’s vampire novella Carmilla is far more progressive than it has any right to […]
An Eminently Readable Tidal Odyssey
In 1769, German philosopher GE Lessing observed that in “nature everything is connected, everything is interwoven, everything changes with everything, […]
Katie Budris’ Mid-Bloom: Grief and Love Compressed
The score or so of poems collected in Katie Budris’ Mid-Bloom (2021) are all self-contained visions of life, whole and […]
A Collection of Poems that are Anything but Idle
The Book of I.P. (Idle Poems) by Chris Courtney Martin is a colorful chapbook that is as eye-catching as it […]