An anthology of works by Art Farm residents, summer 2017, including poetry, essays, photography, drawings, engravings, designs, and installation art. Download free PDF here or purchase black and… Read more “The West Twenty-First Review, Volume 1”
Submerged–John Findura
In Findura’s post-diluvian lyrical apocalypse, the covenant of the rainbow is reneged, replaced by an anxiety of everyday pathologies we all feel and recognize, whether living near… Read more “Submerged–John Findura”
Louder Than Everything You Love–Nicole Ross Rollender
In this haunted and searching debut, Nicole Rollender intones the music of the body and its bones. Bones ring out from these pages as bells ring… Read more “Louder Than Everything You Love–Nicole Ross Rollender”
Moving, Being Moved–Sandra Fees
Sandra Fees, in Moving, Being Moved, is able to integrate a child-like wonder with an adult wisdom in a language that is at once imaginative and musical,… Read more “Moving, Being Moved–Sandra Fees”
The Things a Body Might Become–Emari DiGiorgio
To read these poems is to know without doubt that it’s no cliché: vulnerability is indeed strength – and strength, when given language, becomes a call to… Read more “The Things a Body Might Become–Emari DiGiorgio”
Saint of the Partial Apology–Melissa Atkinson Mercer
In Melissa Atkinson Mercer’s Saint of the Partial Apology, I’ve rediscovered the terrifying pleasures of awe, of limbs that part like orchids in black rain, of maps made… Read more “Saint of the Partial Apology–Melissa Atkinson Mercer”
The Temple She Became–Rachel Custer
In her stunning first collection The Temple She Became, Rachel Custer writes, “A moment can be a cathedral.” The poems in this collection delineate life as a kind… Read more “The Temple She Became–Rachel Custer”
Drugstore Blue–Susana H. Case
“In Drugstore Blue, Susana H. Case’s speaker is a femme fatale in serious eyeshadow: ‘You need me / like a tongue needs a second / mouth.’ That’s the sound of her… Read more “Drugstore Blue–Susana H. Case”
Model Organism–Robert Pesich
How many sights and sounds our routine-framed lives keep us from experiencing. Not until something unusual strikes, something that disrupts these routines, are we apt to pay… Read more “Model Organism–Robert Pesich”
Spectators: Flash Fictions–Rob Davidson
This collection of flash fiction grapples with the Western identity vis-à-vis the idea of the spectacle, and was written in response to the visual art and &… Read more “Spectators: Flash Fictions–Rob Davidson”
