Category: microreview & interview
Microreview and Interview: Carlina Duan’s “Alien Miss”
A conversation with Carlina Duan about her newest collection, “Alien Miss.”
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Microreview and Interview: Matt Mitchell’s The Neon Hollywood Cowboy
Assistant Editor Taylor Byas interviews Matt Mitchell about his debut collection, The Neon Hollywood Cowboy, in which Mitchell “spins us a record, songs of longing and love crooning from grainy speakers.”
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Microreview and Interview: Diamond Forde’s Mother Body
An interview with Diamond Forde about Mother Body, her debut collection of poems. From reviewer Marianne Chan: “These poems—with brilliant images and startling musicality—resist erasure and destruction…”
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Microreview and Interview: Danielle Evans’s The Office of Historical Corrections
Editorial Assistant Haley Crigger interviews Danielle Evans about Evans about the project of The Office of Historical Corrections, the role of risk and humor in fiction, and affirming Blackness in narrative.
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Microreview and Interview with Jaswinder Bolina
A microreview of Of Color (McSweeney’s, 2020) and interview with Jaswinder Bolina. “The book is the culmination of almost ten years of accidental prose. ….”
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microreview & interview: Taneum Bambrick’s Vantage
I was first drawn to Taneum Bambrick’s full-length debut Vantage (Copper Canyon, 2019) because it had “an ecological eye,” but after reading the collection, I realize how much of a disservice it is to characterize this book solely as environmentally urgent.
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microreview & interview: Jennifer Givhan’s Landscape With Headless Mama
by Jose Angel Araguz In “Rummage,” midway through CR contributor Jennifer Givhan’s Landscape with...
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microreview & interview: Rochelle Hurt’s In Which I Play the Runaway
by José Angel Araguz In “The Miami River Floods,” from Rochelle Hurt’s collection In Which I Play...
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microreview & interview: Leah Poole Osowski’s Hover Over Her
Leah Osowski’s poem “Vs. Field” is forthcoming Issue 13.2. In today’s blog...
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microreview/interview: Wayne Miller’s Post-
by José Angel Araguz In his latest collection, Post- (Milkweed Editions), contributor Wayne Miller...
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microreview/interview: A. Molotkov’s The Catalog of Broken Things
by José Angel Araguz In my reading of The Catalog of Broken Things (Airlie Press, 2016) by poet...
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microreview/interview: Blackbirds in September
by José Angel Araguz “The memory does not exist, you have to create them” (Jürgen Becker) These...
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