Poetry of Syria: Green Dreams in Red World
Thursday, August 31, 2017

Poetry of Syria: Green Dreams in Red World Translated and introduced by Saleh Razzouk, Philip Terman and Murray Alfredson   Syria gained independence from the French mandate in 1946, so we must consider it a fairly new country with deep roots in the Islamic past. Alexander the Great made it a par... .. read more..

God-Extensions: The Poetry of Dana Levin’s “Banana Palace”
Thursday, August 31, 2017

God-Extensions: The Poetry of Dana Levin’s Banana Palace Copper Canyon, 2016 by Emilia Phillips “We used our texting machines / to look up the definition of soul,” Dana Levin begins her fourth poetry collection, a move that destabilizes the reader’s sense of the contemporary moment by linguistica... .. read more..

Working With Eggshells: A Review of Kaveh Akbar’s Calling a Wolf a Wolf
Saturday, June 24, 2017

Working With Eggshells: A Review of Kaveh Akbar’s Calling a Wolf a Wolf Alice James Books, 2017 Kaveh Akbar’s poems are packed in salt, his language a wild arrangement of brine dredged from the pool of consciousness ensconced in a personal anguish, poured through the filter of this world, our bit... .. read more..