Perigee

Teeter, Alidio's fourth full-length poetry book, marks the apex of a language poet’s work, where making occurs alongside documenting but does not extract from it and in which hearing surrounds language but does not acquire, master, or own it... meandering through or remixing affect and archive, never stagnating or calcifying into that which is mappable.

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When You Call Me Names

Christine H. Chen

04 Aug 2023

When my mother was 13, she used to wake up at sunrise every day and carry him on her back to queue for rationed rice. Later, while he and the five siblings would slurp the steamy rice diluted with hot water to fill up the bowls, my mother would fan the charcoal stove with one hand, the other holding down the growling of her belly.

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The Dreamer in Broad Daylight: A Review of SALMON by Sebastian Castillo

Tim Leonido

26 Jul 2023

He strives to elevate his world with literature; he often fails. But that’s what makes him such a compelling character–the hero of an education novel whose own learning is spotty and inconsistent.

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China Patterns

Rosa Boshier González

21 Jul 2023

In London, your new apartment has one room, two toasters, and no locks on the doors. Your children’s three little heads knock against one another in a twin bed as they sleep. A tall man with rosacea spits on you at the bus stop. Another grabs his crotch and calls you señorita.

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Resisting Brutality & Offering Pearls: A Review of Togetherness by Wo Chan

Genevieve Hartman

05 Jul 2023

People are complicated, capable of both wisdom and ignorance, care and cruelty. The poems in Togetherness take root in these complexities and entwine the overarching timelines and the small moments of lives lived in close proximity to one another.

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An Appointment with the Goddess: A Review of Lisbeth White’s American Sycamore

Lakshmi Sunder

12 Apr 2023

Though each of White’s poems stands alone in form, White’s work is bridged. . . . by the elemental divinity that is a byproduct of self-reckoning.

Interviews

“I try to be forthright”: Interview with Michael Chang

Zachary Issenberg

20 Mar 2023

With their recent tap to edit Lambda Literary’s Emerge anthology, and timely receipt of the Poetry Project’s Brannan Prize, Fence editor and poet Michael Chang’s influence on this decade has begun. Writer Zachary Issenberg sits down with Chang to talk process and literary inspiration.

(Left) Hijab Butch Blues book cover: a person wearing a dark hijab and dark pants stands against a backdrop of stripes of horizontal stripes in various colors, including red, orange, green, and black (Right) An image of the author, Lamya H, wearing a hijab and looking back at a grey curtain

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“A Sense of Spiritual Belonging”: A Review of Lamya H’s Hijab Butch Blues

Bobuq Sayed

09 Mar 2023

These are the moments of intertextuality that make Hijab Butch Blues a truly remarkable rupture in the literary fold.

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“I move like a poet in my entire life”: An Interview with Safia Elhillo

Apogee Journal

01 Mar 2023

A conversation with poet Safia Elhillio about her subversive collection, her poetic origin story, and her neverending search for the perfect poem.

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“Fizzy Romance, Messy Matrixes, and Death Equations”: A Review of Camonghne Felix’s Dyscalculia

Ananda Naima González

21 Feb 2023

The spiral inwards offers a total repossession of the self, while the spiral outwards depicts a hand in the midst of a cosmic reach, apotheosis right around the corner.