Author Archive
Victory is Hers! Three Contest-Winning Chapbooks by Women
This month, I read three award-winning chapbooks—which happen all to have been written by women.
3 DoubleCross Press Chapbooks: Style Meets Sonority
DoubleCross Press makes gorgeous letter press chapbooks. But these aren’t just pretty faces; it’s what’s on the inside—poetry, poetics and "prose-ish" pieces—that counts. This month, I review three of them.
Three Poetry Chapbooks You Must Read
This month, I review three poetry chapbooks from three different women’s voices that are important, that you should read.
A Chapbook by Any Other Name: Reviews of 3 Prose Collections
Genre, in a post-Dylan-won-the-Nobel world, is worth considering on a variety of levels, and often when people hear “chapbook,” they assume automatically the speaker means a short collection of poetry. Publishers, though, also print chapbooks of prose.
3 Chapbook Reviews: Loving and Living in Louisiana
Sometimes, place is an obvious theme or motif in a work, while other times it informs a work in a subtler but still necessary way.
3 Chapbook Reviews: Own Your Past, Believe The Present, Anticipate the Future
For August, I read three chapbooks that dealt with ideas of past, present, and future in both overlapping and contrasting ways. They also each somehow dealt with ideas of spaces that became place for the writers, though sometimes these places were more about time than physical geography.
3 Chapbook Reviews: Beauties of the Web
While publishing online can mean that a text is more easily widely circulated, the dedication that goes into presenting a chapbook online often goes unsung. For July, I read three e-chapbooks, and each of them had stunningly beautiful covers and design that enhanced the reading experience.
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