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 […]
MoreRebecca 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 […]
MoreBy David Hensley “Hitherto the human face had mixed often in my dreams, but not despotically, nor with any special power of tormenting. But now that which I have called the tyranny of the human face began to unfold itself.” –De Quincey Social media platforms build communities, open worlds, and keep us united with the […]
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