Review: A TWENTY MINUTE SILENCE FOLLOWED BY APPLAUSE by Shawn Wen
If Marcel Marceau as a performer and a French man was cheeky, brilliant, and impossible, it seems no accident the title of Wen’s book-length essay is what it is.
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Review: IN FULL VELVET by Jenny Johnson
For her debut collection In Full Velvet, poet Jenny Johnson’s address begins with “Thank you,” and it is radical, as if a muse might peer over the edge of her throne and say, “My, those are words I have not heard for some time.”
“That Swerve that Takes Me Somewhere Else”: An Interview with Rick Barot
Rick Barot’s poems are assured, finely composed structures in which memory and emotion often take startling, deeply moving turns. He is the author of three books of poems, including The Darker Fall and Want. Rick was born in the Philippines, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, and now lives in Tacoma, Washington. He…