by Darah Schillinger | Sep 1, 2024 | Bubbler, Features, FSR, Spotlight
Evelyn Berry’s work in Grief Slut, her debut, edgily titled collection of poems, has an excellent mouth feel. People pay lip service to the idea that poetry should be read aloud. From its first poem, “praise song in lieu of obituary,” Grief... 
by anniebellequattlebaum | May 3, 2021 | Bubbler
THE VIOLENCE ALMANAC, by Miah Jeffra (2021, Black Lawrence Press, New York, NY, 180 pages, $19.95, 978-1-62557-836-5) Reviewed by Derek Berry The Violence Almanac Centers An American Obsession with Brutality... 
by anniebellequattlebaum | Oct 20, 2020 | Bubbler, FSR
GUTTER SPREAD GUIDE TO PRAYER, by Eric Tran (2020 Autumn House Press, Pittsburgh, PA, 62 pages, $16.95, ISBN: 978-1-938769-51-1) Reviewed by Derek Berry Eric Tran’s debut poetry collection The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer, winner of the 2019 Autumn House Rising... 
by anniebellequattlebaum | Aug 13, 2020 | Bubbler
Review by Derek Berry When a character in Ashleigh Bryant Phillips’ debut story collection Sleepovers describes her father’s drink-of-choice as “Crown and Mountain Dew from his special shrimp cup with the little pink shrimp shaking his booty on it,” I understood I was... 
by Free State Review | Jun 21, 2020 | Bubbler, FSR
A book review by Derek Berry To read Jason Gordon’s debut poetry collection “many appetites” feels similar to having a conversation with a close friend after he has consumed five grams of psychedelic mushrooms. When we enter through the door of a fresh poem, we find...
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