by anniebellequattlebaum | Sep 9, 2020 | Bubbler, FSR
Review By Emily Crespo It’s August, coincidentally. I am writing this review on a trampoline under sun-dappled leaves. I haven’t yet looked her up, so I imagine someone else. Danielle takes me right away into her childhood. I read quickly, like I am behind the door of...
by anniebellequattlebaum | Sep 8, 2020 | Bubbler, FSR
Review By Emily Crespo It’s August, coincidentally. I am writing this review on a trampoline under sun-dappled leaves. I haven’t yet looked her up, so I imagine someone else. Danielle takes me right away into her childhood. I read quickly, like I am behind the door of...
by Free State Review | Jul 7, 2020 | Bubbler, FSR
“There’s no running water.” He points. At the water, as if to say, there it is. “It’s trickling out.” “Just press harder.” “I did. It’s not coming out. Not where it’s useable.” “We don’t have sinks here.” “Aren’t...
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...
by anniebellequattlebaum | May 28, 2020 | Bubbler, FSR
Anne Waldman, Sanctuary, Reviewed by Matt Hohner Anne Waldman, Sanctuary, Spuyten Duyvil, 2020, 142 pages, $18.00, ISBN 978-1-949966-65-7. Reviewed by Matt Hohner Sanctuary, Anne Waldman’s exquisite new collection of images and new writing, as well as writing lifted...
by anniebellequattlebaum | Feb 25, 2020 | Bubbler, FSR
Happy Release Day to Alexis Ivy for her release of “Taking the Homeless Census.” Famed critic Barrett Warner says Ivy’s “touch of what others have touched–their needles, their drink, their piss– turns her hands into doorways that...
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