Reviews

Black and white image of Puerto Rican poet Salvador Villanueva as a young man. He has coarse black hair and beard. He wears a white button-down shirt with rolled up sleeves at the elbows. It seems he is gesturing to someone off-screen in the middle of conversation.

I found Villanueva to be ahead of his time, working a craft that would be called “meta-modern” by some, an innovative style in which the reader participates in the process of the author’s work. I was immediately taken by its apparent simplicity, which caused his work to stand apart from most of the poetry I knew from my island. I would later find out that he was ahead of his time in the art of letters in Puerto Rico.

Ploi Pirapokin

18 Mar 2019

What it means to be Thai

Ploi Pirapokin reviews Pitchaya Sudbanthad’s debut novel, Bangkok Wakes to Rain

Crystal Yeung

25 Feb 2019

(Re)member, (re)location, (re)gender

On Aldrin Valdez’s ESL or You Weren’t Here

Yani Robinson

01 May 2017

Yani Robinson reviews Manuel Arturo Abreu’s Chapbook, Transtrender

Decolonizing the Trans Movement: Frantz Fanon, Manuel Arturo Abreu, and Securing the Futurity of Trans Women of Color

Zef Lisowski

10 Apr 2017

On Jordan Rice’s Constellarium and the Transition Poem

“Say with me, controlled burn,” Jordan Rice writes midway through her debut collection of poetry, Constellarium (Orison Books, 2016). She’s writing about the Columbia Space Shuttle explosion, but the...