Criticism

Review: Steffan Triplett’s CONSTRAINTS

How does one play with restrictions and limits to say something fresh and urgent, much less find joy? Winson Law discusses and reviews Steffan Triplett’s creative nonfiction chapbook, CONSTRAINTS.

Love in Their Own Ways: A Review of THE VEIL BETWEEN TWO WORLDS by Christina Vo

Christina Vo’s new memoir, THE VEIL BETWEEN TWO WORLDS, explores how that path towards healing and self-love is never direct. 

THE PLANET COMMUNICATES: A conversation with Jhani Randhawa

“Poetry, language, feels like a practice—a study—of relation. For me, ecology is the root of all relation.” A conversation with Jhani Randhawa and their debut collection, TIME REGIME.

A Contemplation on Sorrow and Loss: A Review of WHAT STORM, WHAT THUNDER by Myriam J.A. Chancy

In August of 2021, I visited my place of birth, the Dominican Republic. A couple…

Non-essential Knowledge: Latinx Studies in Times of Covid-19

Writing at the turn of the twentieth century, Arthur Schomburg, the black Puerto Rican scholar…

Review: Niloufar Talebi’s Self-Portrait in Bloom: Translation and Power

My country Iran has been in the U.S. news for decades. The American news whipsaws…

“how to run / out of our own flesh—”: A Review of Grace Shuyi Liew’s Careen

Writing about the musician Mitski, Jia Tolentino argues that, “there is a notion, informed by…

Expanding the Waters of Love: A Review of Shayla Lawson’s I Think I’m Ready To See Frank Ocean

“Of course, when I say, ‘Ocean’ I am thinking of myself —how every time I…

On Dream Houses and Ex-Girlfriends

I read Carmen Maria Machado’s new memoir In the Dream House in a day. It’s…

Microeditorial: Harriet, Black Women Gather

Harriet is cinematic church. This weekend, Black women gathered in a Tampa theater reciting spirituals,…