I did not begin reading poetry by Latinx writers until late 2018 when I started my MFA program. Before then I read mostly white (read: White European) poetry...

Eimear McBride’s A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing was a difficult read. The language was broken down. The scenes created were tough to bear witness to. But, it w...

I had mixed feelings while reading Chris Kraus’ I Love Dick. On the one hand, there is an empowerment of woman, on the other there is an obvious removal of p...

Susan Howe’s “That This” is a heart-wrenching mind-bender. The handling of time (before and after, past and present, etc) in “Disappearance Approach” reflect...

"You realize, man, ain't no justice, ain't never been no justice, ain't never gonna be no justice."

Read in the train, it gave me the opportunity to not focus on the individual facts and be in the constant search of who or what they died about, but to read ...

The Complete Maus was painful to read and see. The screaming faces of the Jewish mice as they are crying for their lives, the nooses tied around their necks ...

Kenneth Goldsmith’s Uncreative Writing seemed boring. And, well, uncreative, in fact in its appearance and design. That being said, the introduction opens up...

Bluets is a melancholy love song for the color blue. Nelson shows the variety of meanings attributed to blue: depression, stillness, life, water, religion, e...

“Writers are outlaws.” And though the case may be made by writers that stick to known form and measures as untrue, when it comes to hybrid literature the wri...

John Green has the capacity to tear my soul open and leave me crying for the characters he creates. Looking for Alaska was a wonderful YA story that I could ...

Carrier Fisher sneaks up on you and tells her story vividly as if she were there beside you and telling it aloud. Wets your palate with juicy details about h...

“We Shall Not Be Moved” details the struggles of women strikers and the labor union’s fight for recognition, especially in the garment trade/ district of New...

It's not often that I pick up a true non-fiction book. I mean, why would I? One of the reasons I read is to escape my surroundings (have you seen the news la...

The cover is so simple I fought hard with myself on how to best showcase it, finally deciding to let it speak for itself. Personally, I enjoy the simple cove...

/ˈpeˌtrīkôr/ a pleasant smell that frequently accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather. This is the first work Paola de Varona has...

I bought the book the same week it came out, and finished it all in about 4-5 hours. But I didn't end the book in tears. I ended with a sigh. Not of boredom,...

I found this book in a box hiding in my closet this past month while reorganizing my room. It was stuck between my Japanese for Beginner's book (from my twee...

I suppose I should begin by thanking a close friend, O—, for bringing this book to my attention. During a conversation with her I managed to come out ahead w...

I remember reading a chapter in elementary preparing for the state standardized tests and answering some simple multiple choice question on the definition of...