Hunger and Hallelujahs book review

  Hunger and Hallelujahs by Philip Elliott Fiction Big Pond Rumours Press, 2018 $10.00 (Canadian), 22 page ISBN: 978-0-9959662-3-9   Reviewed by Charles Rammelkamp The unnamed Irish girl at the heart of the nine flash fictions that make up Philip Elliott’s...

Brendan Brady/Poetry

The Snow in March is Tired Powdered abstractions in an opaque vanity, sickly snow perspires and gasps, engorged and sinking into sleep. A lullaby swallowed is wasted under evening daffodil while streetlights seize, blinking and confused. The power flashed and the...

Henry Giroux’s Summer Critical Reading List

  Henry Giroux’s Critical Reads in the Age of the American Nightmare     By Henry A. Giroux Contributing Editor Ιt is hard to imagine a more urgent moment for developing a language of critique and possibility that would serve to awaken our critical and...

Evan Lockwood/Commentary

  Epiphany in a Pizza Shop A Trumpian Reverie   By Evan Lockwood Illegally stoned on a plant not federally legal yet, in line at a pizza shop on a Friday night. The line is uncomfortably long for being this stoned. A young girl – clearly the daughter of an...

Paul Sohar on John Amen’s “… Overwhelm”

“Illusion of an Overwhelm” by John Amen New York Quarterly Books First Edition 72 Pages Paperback ISBN-10: 1630450480 ISBN-13: 978-1630450489   By Paul Sohar It was no illusion, but a real “overwhelm” that this reader experienced going over John Amen’s latest...