THE "TOLL" TAKEN BY THE NOVEL'S VORACIOUSNESS = RECOMMENDATIONS!

When I committed 2019 to finishing--and then trying to find publication for--my first long-form novel, I knew I'd have to set aside a lot of my usual commitments for the year. Hence, I put Galatea Resurrects on a temporary (now permanent) sabbatical, I recognized I'd write few new poems, and so on. I can't recall who said it -- perhaps Joyce Carol Oates? -- but I knew this saying is true: The most harmful thing to writing or writing a novel is not time but distractions. But before I continue, an aside :)

My novel is entitled DOVELION: A Fairy Tale For Our Times. I've been cagey about releasing details about it but its title, anyway, was outed ... because it's a Finalist in Eyelands' Book Award for Unpublished Novels!

Eyelands' recognition (whether or not I'll get the top award) is meaningful for, among other things, validating my commitment to it. But as I was saying, I had anticipated that the novel would be voracious and so I committed 2019 to it. Now that we're in December, I can share some of its effects--for instance, I published/released online only 26 poems in 2019 (versus 92 poems in 2018). And I wrote zero blurbs, reviewed zero poetry titles and was only able to review 3 novels, 2 memoirs, one novelist, and one artwork. Because they successfully distracted me from my novel, I nod to them. Here are the works I reviewed this year -- links will be to their reviews:

Reviewed Novels:
INSURRECTO by Gina Apostol
THE BETRAYED by Reine Arcache Melvin
SUBVERSIVO, INC. by Jose Elvin Bueno

Reviewed Artwork:
"Hawak/Hold," a drawing by Katrina Bello

Reviewed Memoirs:
GLIMPSES by Leny M. Strobel ("review" viz doing an Introduction)
THE BODY PAPERS by Grace Talusan

"Reviewed" Author
Ninotchka Rosca

Because we're talking about so few (for me) reviews, it pleases me to share the works' images and/or book covers:

 "Hawak/Hold" by Katrina Bello

I say Congratulations to these authors as your creations were so compelling that they distracted me from my own novel! But then, I also thank you for creating such fabulous work! I absolutely loved engaging with your writings and creations.

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Thanks to Erica Goss for the idea of looking at the book covers of those one reviewed during the year; thanks as well for her including one of my books, ONE TWO THREE: Selected Hay(na)ku, among those she reviewed! Her post is available HERE.

REVIEWED, AND IT'S ALL DESSERT!

Halo-Halo

Today the 8^th issue of The Halo-Halo Review is fresh!  I’m happy to share the first review of The In(tervention of the Hay(na)ku by self-described “emerging critical scholar” Maileen Dumelod Hamto. You can see her review HERE but here’s an excerpt that of course makes me sniffle:

“Poetry rules are sometimes made to be broken,” Tabios writes. At its core, the Hay(na)ku is liberatory and emancipatory, similar in magnitude to the genius of Black American inventors and innovators in literature, music and other creative pursuits. By developing the Hay(na)ku, Tabios invited her contemporaries to define FilAm, U.S.-born-and-bred poetry from brown-skinned Filipinos, to cease conformity with white supremacist notions of “goodness” in art and the expectation of appeasing the tyranny of literary gatekeepers in order to be validated. 

As an emerging critical scholar, I ask these questions: who determines the importance and significance of a word? In a literary form where every word counts, who is doing the counting? Poetic constructs are defined by rules established by dead white men. Tabios, as a decolonizing poet, takes self-determination to a whole other level by creating her own, devising a forward-looking FilAm/Pinoy literary identity that is concurrently sophisticated and approachable.

I’m also happy that several of my edited projects got reviews:

“HUMANITY, Vol. 1 edited by Eileen R. Tabios,” Review by Marjorie Evasco at The Tambara Journal, June, 2019 (as reprinted online by The Halo Halo Review)

“VERSES TYPHOON YOLANDA edited by Eileen R. Tabios,” Review by Neil Leadbeater

“Evidence of Fetus Diversity edited by Eileen R. Tabios,” Review by Aloy Polintan

Finally, I am mentioned in an anthology review: 

“NO TENDER FENCES: An Anthology of Immigrant & First Generation Immigrant American Poetry edited by Carla Sofia Ferreira Kim Sousa & Marina Carreira,” Review by Cristina Querrer 

I’m a cat with cream--or the halo-halo's coconut milk--all over its face. Thank you, Universe.

Do check out the entire issue to see what's up with Filipino-Pilipinz literature. I even review the novel that just won the Philippines' National Book Award, Reine Arcache Melvin's THE BETRAYED.  And so much more! Lots of good reads and eats!

CLASS AND ... PROFANITIES

Hm. This must rank as the most interesting response from a reviewee to one of my reviews. I don't know why I've never thought about the class implications of the profanity before ... it seems so obvious once it was pointed out to me. But, here, let me share it (with his permission)--this note from Olchar E LIndsann regarding my review of his profanity poems. Read it and then perhaps go to link for the profanity-filled review.

Hi Eileen

Thanks for this – I must say that one of my favourite lines written yet about my work is "At this point, if this publication were longer than the slim chap that it is, I’d have shut it down and moved on to the next publication calling itself poetry." I laughed aloud. For what it's worth, the genesis of that series for me was two-fold: On one level, I'd just moved back to the States after two years in the UK and was reflecting on the subtle ways in which people treated language in everyday conversation there, which seemed encapsulated in how profanity's employed (more of it, more profanity and gradation, less association with the supposed-meaning of words which meant fewer words that are actually taboo, much more colourful figurative language interlaced with it, etc. – in a word, more playfully). The class implications of profanity (in English it's the anglo-saxon version of the word spoken by serfs that's profane, and the franco-norman version of the aristocracy that is acceptable, pretty much across the board) are much closer to the surface there. Secondly, profanity fascinates me because it tends to detach itself from so many of the rules of language – words are used as nouns, adjectives, verbs and exclamations interchangeably; they're combined in all kinds of conjunctions with other words to create phrases that are apparently nonsense, and in fact carry no semantic content, and yet definitely mean something (they just don't say it); in moments of lost control, they come out in long strings that had almost might as well be glossolalia; words are only rarely used in accordance with their literal meanings, yet those literal meanings are what make them taboo, yet breaking the taboo they impose is their only reason for being.

I'm enjoying the other engagements posted here too – thanks again,
Altar

GALATEA BIRTHS AND NOT JUST RESURRECTS!

I just received Thomas Hibbard's new book, TRANSCENDENT TOPOLOGIES: STRUCTURALISM AND VISUAL WRITING, and was happy to see Galatea Resurrects responsible for first publishing seven of its 19 essays. Here's its Acknowledgments page which affirms GR's commitment to featuring deeply-considered work that might be ignored in a world of short attention spans:

Do check out Tom's thoughtful way of engaging with visual poetry over at the Luna Bisonte site.  

And this allows me to segue into announcing the May edition of GALATEARESURRECTS -- a shorter-than-usual edition to accommodate how I'll be traveling for nearly 3 weeks starting in a few days. You can go to http://galatearesurrects2018.blogspot.com but I'll cutnpaste the Contents below. Thanks as ever to our volunteer reviewers.

Galatea Resurrects, MAY Issue:

FEATURED ESSAY: Martha King on Frank O'Hara

(5/7)

Is That the Sound of a Piano Coming From Several Houses Down? by Noah Eli Gordon

Reviewed by rob mclennan (5/6)

COMPENDIUM: a collection of thoughts on prosody by Donald Justice, edited by David Koehn and Alan Soldofsky

Reviewed by Patrick James Dunagan (5/5)

HOY / TODAY by Juan Gelman, Translated by Lisa Rose Bradford

Engaged by Eileen Tabios (5/4)

The Sweating Lake by John M. Bennett

Engaged by Jim Leftwich (5/3)

INVISIBLE FISH by Susan F. Glassmeyer

Engaged by Eileen Tabios (5/2)

Publications by Jim Leftwich, Thomas Lowe Taylor, Joseph Carries, McKenzie Wark and John Milton

Engaged by Scott MacLeod (5/1)

GALATEA RESURRECTS IN FEBRUARY!

I'm delighted to release the February edition of Galatea Resurrects! You can click HERE but I'll also paste the Contents below for convenience:

FEBRUARY
Featured Poet: Sheila E. Murphy
(2/20)

The Palace of Flowers by Gerry Grubbs
Reviewed by Joseph P. Tomain (2/19)

The Small Door of Your Death by Sheryl St. Germain
Reviewed by Neil Leadbeater (2/18)

Featured Essay: "Karl Kempton and 'The Enigma of the Other': The Originary Structures of Truth and Discovery of Visual Writing"
By Tom Hibbard (2/17)

Stubborn by Sheri Reda
Reviewed by M. Earl Smith (2/16)

WHEREAS by Layli Long Soldier
Engaged by Eileen Tabios (2/15)

some more strange meteorites by Mark Young
Reviewed by Neil Leadbeater (2/14)

Guitar Tech by Mark Sonnenfeld
Reviewed by Jim Leftwich (2/14)

ANNE WITH AN E & ME by Wesley St. Jo
Engaged by Eileen Tabios (2/13)

Girl Gang by Juliet Cook
Reviewed by M. Earl Smith (2/12)

ORPHIC CANTOS by Ivan Argüelles
Engaged by John M. Bennett (2/11)

PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE FERAL by Julia Rose Lewis
Engaged by Eileen Tabios (2/10)

Phaneagrams by Jake Berry
Engaged by Jim Leftwich (2/9)

The Critic Writes Poems: Paul Pines
(2/8)

Featured Essay: "The Nearness of Asemic Writing" 
By Jim Leftwich (2/8)

MARAWI by Albert E. Alejo and Eileen R. Tabios with translations by Aileen Cassinetto
Reviewed by Neil Leadbeater (2/7)

farnessity, wordslabs by Randee Silv
Reviewed by Jim Leftwich (2/6)

Interview: William Burroughs
Engaged by jim mccrary (2/5)

Tres tressstrisss trieesss tril trilssss: Transmutations of Cesar Vallejo by Jim Leftwich
Engaged by John M. Bennett (2/4)

From Here by Zoe Skoulding, with illustrations by Simonetta Moro
Reviewed by M. Earl Smith (2/3)

Publications by Scott MacLeod, Michael Palmer, Thomas Lowe Taylor, Ann Lauterbach, Daniel Davidson and Laura Moriarty
Engaged by Scott MacLeod (2/2)

The Critic Writes Poems: Jim McCrary
(2/1)

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I wasn't expecting it, but I certainly also am blessed to have one of my co-authored projects, MARAWI, receive a review.  Thanks to Neil Leadbeater!

HAPPY 11TH BIRTHDAY, GALATEA RESURRECTS!

Well now, I hadn't been planning to but given this stupendous gift of jellies and poetry that just arrived in the mail from stupendous poet-publisher Kimberly Ann Lyons, let's celebrate Galatea Resurrects' 11th birthday, shall we?! Thank you Kimberly! GR is proud to have reviewed, to date, nearly 2,000 poetry books and other projects. Let's eat! For my afternoon cuppa, some of those fig reserves indeed! Or shall it be the rosehips that puts roses on my hips? All to the tune of a birthday poem for this "little snowball" from Gerrit Lansing! Indeedy!

Per third image, Kimberly refers to the site of Galatea Resurrects and I'm glad it and its Archives keeps giving! 

MY LATEST REVIEW OF MORIA BOOKS' LOCOFO CHAP SERIES

For a good cause, I'll review for others besides Galatea Resurrects. Here's my review of Moria Books' locofo series for Glass: A Journal of Poetry--you can see it HERE, but here's an excerpt:

With hindsight, locofo chaps' success is not surprising. While its genius is partly based on a sufficient number of poets participating in the project, locofo chaps also contains strong conceptual underpinnings. A key is Allegrezza's plan (already underway) for the locofo chaps to be sent to the President himself. It was this facet of his plan that grabbed my attention when I first learned of the series, for it elevates the project beyond being only about publishing. Sending the chapbooks to the White House means that locofo chaps is de facto creating literature's own protest rally. Literature's own protest rally — that's ingenious. If the new President "does not read," to quote from a common charge tossed at him, then literature can be another constituent that protests at its erasure or marginalization, just like immigrants, refugees, transgenders, women, and others who have felt attacked by the administration. Thus, does literature protest. Thus, do (chap)books protest. Literature's own protest rally — that's ingenious. If the new President "does not read," to quote from a common charge tossed at him, then literature can be another constituent that protests at its erasure or marginalization, just like immigrants, refugees, transgenders, women, and others who have felt attacked by the administration. Thus, does literature protest. Thus, do (chap)books protest.

There's some overlap with what I said earlier in my Galatea Resurrects review, but with different featured authors and an update on one of locofo's results: the new press, Paloma Press! Individual resistance actions can have unexpected and wide-ranging effects. Never silence yourself!

Last but not least, CONGRATULATIONS and much respect to publisher William Allegrezza for having achieved what initially seemed improbable: 100 chaps in 100 days! Indeed, it looks like the total number of chaps will exceed a hundred ... such is the extent of this Resistance!

THE HALO-HALO REVIEW'S MANGOZINE #4

The Halo-Halo Review is fresh with MANGOZINE #4!  You can see the issue by clicking on prior link but for convenience, here are the CONTENTS:


I.  NEW REVIEWS AND ENGAGEMENTS

American Son by Brian Ascalon Roley (W.W. Norton, 2001) and The Last Mistress of Jose Rizal by Brian Ascalon Roley (Curbstone Books / Northwestern University Press, Evanston, IL, 2016). Engaged by Vince Gotera

Puñeta: Political Pilipinx Poetry (Moria Books/Locofo Chaps, Chicago, 2017). Engaged by Eileen R. Tabios

Poetry is: José Garcia Villa's Philosophy of Poetry, edited by Robert L. King (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2015). Reviewed by Monica Manolachi

A Series of Un / Natural / Disasters by Cheena Marie Lo (Commune Editions, Oakland, CA, 2016). Reviewed by Kimberly Alidio

Writer in Exile / Writer in Revolt: Critical Perspectives on Carlos Bulosan, edited by Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao (University Press of America/Rowman & Littlefield, 2016). Reviewed by Paulino Lim, Jr. 

BALIKBAYANG MAHAL: Passages from Exile by E. San Juan, Jr. (Philippine Studies Center, Washington D.C., 2007/2017). Engaged by Eileen R. Tabios

WATERMELON NIGHTS by Greg Sarris (First Edition, Hyperion Books, 1998; Penguin, 1999). Engaged by Leny M. Strobel

TRICKSTERS & COSMOPOLITANS by Rei Magosaki--with review focus on Jessica Hagedorn (Fordham University Press, New York, 2016). Engaged by Eileen R. Tabios    

WRITING NAKED by Arnie Mejia (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, Manila, 2016). Reviewed by Aloysiusi Lionel Polintan

RETURNING A BORROWED TONGUE edited by Nick Carbo (Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, Minn., 1996). Reviewed by Jessica Gonzalez

LIFEBOAT by Kristine Ong Muslim (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, Manila, 2015). Reviewed by Aloysiusi Lionel Polintan

The Gilded Age of Kickstarters by Eileen R. Tabios (Dancing Girl Press & Studio, Chicago, 2016). Reviewed by Jim McCrary

Fault Setting by Joel Toledo (University of Philippines Press, 2016). Reviewed by Aloysiusi Lionel Polintan

The Art of Exporting by Cristina Querrer (Dancing Girl Press & Studio, Chicago, 2011). Reviewed by Chris Mansel 

Histories by Charlie Samuya Veric (Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2015). Reviewed by Aloysiusi Lionel Polintan



II. AUTHOR INTERVIEWS, POST-BOOK

Kimberly Alidio 

Erin Entrada Kelly

Barbara Jane Reyes



III. READERS SHOW SOME LOVE TO FILIPINO AUTHORS
Go HERE to see: 

Sheila Bare on Carlos Bulosan

Michael Simms on Jose Padua

Eileen Tabios on Mg Roberts

Aloysiusi Lionel Polintan on Gemino Abad



IV. FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE

Reviews
SISA'S VENGEANCE: A Radical Interpretation of Jose Rizal by E. San Juan, Jr. (Philippines Cultural Studies Center, Connecticut, 2014). Reviewed by Francis C. Macansantos


From Books: Introductions, Prefaces, Forewords, Afterwords and Author's Notes

Mg Roberts introduces ALL THINGS LOSE THOUSANDS OF TIMES by Angela Peñaredondo (Inlandia Books, Riverside, CA, 2016)

Jaime An Lim presents the Preface to Peace Mindanao edited by Jaime An Lim (UST Press, Philippines, 2013)  

Jaime An Lim presents the Preface to his The Axolotyl Colony: Stories (UP Press, Philippines, 2016)

GALATEA RESURRECTS IS FRESH FOR THE 26TH TIME!

First and foremost, HAPPY 20-YEAR ANNIVERSARY TO GALATEA RESURRECTS. It's amazing to get this far since I did this project as a lark and thought then that it'd be good if it continued for a year or so.

Thanks as ever to Galatea Resurrects' generous volunteer staff of reviewers. In addition to presenting wonderful feature articles, we feature 90 NEW POETRY REVIEWS in the current and our 26th issue.

With Issue No. 26, GR has provided 1,669 new reviews and 149 reprinted reviews (the latter brings online reviews previously available only viz print or first published in now-defunct online sites). With Issue No. 26, we also increased our coverage of poetry publishers by 20 to 579 publishers in 17 countries. 

We hope you enjoy reading GR's Issue No. 26; for convenience, I cut-n-paste the Table of Contents below:

GR Issue No. 26 Table of Contents

[N.B. Click on highlighted titles to go directly to the referenced article.]

EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION

By Eileen Tabios

NEW REVIEWS

Monica Manolachi reviews Paper Children by Mariana Marin, translated by Adam J. Sorkin

Eileen Tabios engages A Picture of Everyone I Love Passes Through Me with collages by Lynn Behrendt and text mixed by John Bloomberg-Rissman and remixed by Lynn Behrendt

Anne Marie Fowler reviews 67 Mogul Miniatures by Raza Ali Hasan

Patrick James Dunagan reviews Particulars of Place by Richard O. Moore

Jason Morris reviews The Green Ray by Corina Copp

Monica Manolachi reviews Arctic Poems by Vicente Huidobro, translated by Nathan Hoks

Jay Besemer reviews Anti-Humboldt: A Reading of the North American Free Trade Agreement / Una lectura del Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte by Hugo García Manríquez

Allen Bramhall reviews Green Oil by Jean Donnelly

Monica Manolachi reviews Dark Times Filled with Light: The Selected Work of Juan Gelman, translated by Hardie St. Martin

Tom Jenks reviews Parsival by Steve McCaffery

James Sanders reviews Alkali by Craig Dworkin

John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews 100 Chinese Silences by Timothy Yu 

Allen Bramhall reviews AMIRI BARAKA & EDWARD DORN: THE COLLECTED LETTER, edited by Claudia Moreno Pisano

Jon Curley reviews Trafficke by Susan Tichy

Tom Beckett engages four books by Charles Borkhuis: Disappearing Acts, Afterimage, Savoir-Fear and Alpha Ruins

Genevieve Kaplan reviews Almost Perfect Forms by Michael Stewart

Neil Leadbeater reviews The Year of the Tree by Katherine Gallagher

Eileen Tabios engages THE UNFOLLOWING by Lyn Hejinian

Jay Besemer reviews Garments Against Women by Anne Boyer

Neil Leadbeater reviews A Hole in the Ocean: A Hamptons’ Apprenticeship by Sandy McIntosh

Anne Marie Fowler reviews Night Songs by Kristina Marie Darling

Allen Bramhall reviews AN ANTHOLOGY OF CONCRETE POETRY, edited by Emmett Williams

Jay Besemer reviews Fabulas Feminae by Susan Bee and Johanna Drucker

Eileen Tabios engages Radio Silence by Philip Schaefer and Jeff Whitney

Allen Bramhall reviews Roman Exercises by Donald Wellman

Jon Curley reviews The Cranberry Island Series by Donald Wellman

Neil Leadbeater reviews Reading Apollinaire by Valerie Fox

Chris Mansel reviews Pelican Dreaming: Poems 1959 – 2008 by Mark Young

Monica Manolachi reviews Like the Rains Come by Mercedes Roffé, translated by Janet Greenberg

Dan Raphael reviews Selected Improvisations by Vernon Frazer 

Joel Chace reviews Selected Improvisations by Vernon Frazer

Neil Leadbeater reviews All That Gorgeous Pitiless Song by Rebecca Foust

Alana Siegel engages Heart Thread by Robert Kelly

Chris Mansel reviews Latest Volcano by Tana Jean Welch

Daniel Y. Harris reviews Sapodilla by Michael Rothenberg

Creed Shepard reviews THIS HERE by Jim McCrary

richard lopez reviews THIS HERE by Jim McCrary

Brin Sanford reviews The Robot Scientist’s Daughter by Jeannine Hall Gailey

Eileen Tabios engages Bandicoot habitat by Mark Young

Valerie Morton reviews ONE BLACKBIRD AT A TIME by Wendy Barker

Neil Leadbeater reviews Ohio Railroads by C.S. Giscombe

Genevieve Kaplan reviews from Idylls & Rushes by Susana Gardner

Chris Mansel reviews CADDISH by Susana Gardner 

Monica Manolachi reviews New Poetry from Spain, edited and translated by Marta Lopez-Luaces, Johnny Lorenz & Edwin M. Lamboy

M. Earl Smith reviews i eat cannibals by Gina Abelkop

Neil Leadbeater reviews Border States by Jane Hoogestraat

Allen Bramhall reviews Jack London is Dead: Contemporary Euro-American Poetry of Hawai'i (And Some Stories), edited by Susan M. Schultz

Eileen Tabios engages Saint Pink by Mary Kasimor

Neil Leadbeater reviews Flirt by Noah Blaustein

Monica Manolachi reviews Morse, My Deaf Friend by Miloš Djurdjević

Chris Mansel reviews SWIMMING HOME by Vincent Katz

Jay Besemer reviews Family Resemblance: An Anthology and Exploration of 8 Hybrid Literary Genres, edited by Marcela Sulak and Jacqueline Kolosov

Chris Mansel reviews HOW TO BE ANOTHER by Susan Lewis

Jon Curley reviews War, and After by Joel Chace

Genevieve Kaplan reviews The Greenhouse by Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet

Chris Mansel reviews ORIGINAL SIN by Michael Daley 

Eileen Tabios engages QUATREFOIL by CB Follett

Genevieve Kaplan reviews Part, Part Euphrates by Arpine Konyalian Grenier

Chris Mansel reviews VOICE’S DAUGHTER OF A HEART YET TO BE BORN by Anne Waldman 

Jon Curley reviews Labor by Jill Magi

E.E. Nobbs engages Paper Craft by Catherine Daly

and the podcast LA-Lit 29: Catherine Daly (November 11, 2007) / Penn Sound

Eileen Tabios Engages The Hand Has Twenty-Seven Bones—: These Hands If Not Gods by Natalie Diaz

Chris Mansel reviews Triple Crown by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

Monica Manolachi reviews THE GREAT AMERICAN POETRY SHOW, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, edited by Larry Ziman, Madeline Sharples, and Nicky Selditz

jim mccrary presents micro-reviews of 

Works & Days by Bernadette Mayer;

Diary of a K-Drama Villain by Min K Kang; and

Touch the Donkey featuring Mary Kasimor, Billy Mavreas, Sonnet L’abbe, damian lopes, Pet Smit, Katie L Price, a rawlings and Gil McElroy

Eileen Tabios presents mini-review engagements of 

Traces: Poems to Paintings with poems by James Wagner and paintings by Nava Waxman;

Fire Tongue by Zvi A. Sesling; 

Dearest Annie, You Wanted a Report on Berkson's Class: Letters from Frances LeFevre to Anne Waldman, edited by Lisa Birman; 

MEDITATIONS IN A HELICOPTER ABOUT TO EXPLODE OVER A GUY COVERED IN CHUM, SURFING OFF OF SHARKBAY BEACH by Jason Bredle; 

SPINE by Carolyn Guinzio;

Collected Poems1957-1982 by Wendell Berry;

THE ARGONAUTS by Maggie Nelson;

Stanzas on Oz: Poems 2011-2014 by David M. Katz;

Take Your Hand Outof My Pocket, Shiva by Leonard Gontarek; and


Algaravias: Echo Chamber by Waly Salomao, Trans. by Maryam Monalisa Gharavi

Eileen Tabios presents mini-review engagements of 

DIANOIA by Michael Heller;

Drops of Rain / Drops of Wine by Patrick James Dunagan; 

100 Chinese Silences by Timothy Yu;

15 Chinese Silences by Timothy Yu; 

The Day Judge Spencer Learned the Power of Metaphor by Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow; 

CHARLOTTE SONGS by Paul Pines; 

Diurnal by Jane Joritz-Nakagawa; and

HI-DENSITY POLITICS by Urayoan Noel

FEATURED ESSAY

“Maya Angelou in Ferguson, Missouri: The Phenomenology of Peace” by Tom Hibbard

FEATURED POETS: TWO WORKING IN HAY(NA)KU

Heikki Lahnaoja

Radhey Shyam

THE CRITIC WRITES POEMS

Tom Jenks

FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE

Neal Leadbeater engages JOINING THE DOTS by Monica Manolachi

YELLOW FIELD presents micro-reviews on publications by Cate Colby, Lynne Dreyer, Cathy Eisenhower, Nava Fader, Hailey Higdon, Megan Kaminski, Devon Moore, bruno neiva and Paul Hawkins, Deborah Poe, Marcelle Sauvageot (translated by Christine Schwartz Hartley & Anna Moschovakis), Jill Tomasetti, Alexandra Van de Kamp and Brad Vogler