Uncategorized
On Nightingale by Paisley Rekdal
By Charles Rammelkamp Utah poet laureate Paisley Rekdal’s poetry deals with change, and not gradual, evolutionary change but the kind of drastic transformation often brought on by violence. To that end, many of these poems allude to Ovid’s Metamorphoses, those myths of capricious, aggressive gods driven by their selfish desires. Rekdal channels such tales as […]
MoreInterview with Songbirds and Stray Dogs author Meagan Lucas
Rebecca here—thrilled to share an interview with Meagan Lucas, author of Songbirds and Stray Dogs, a debut novel I happily put at the top of my summer TBR. Meagan Lucas is a Canadian who found home in the mountains of North Carolina. She teaches English at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College and is the Fiction Editor […]
More