Saida Agostini Publishes Poem in Perugia
Agostini's poem "An Incomplete Legend on Love" finds a home in Perugia Press as they highlight exceptional emerging BIWOC poets and artists
Saida Agostini's "An Incomplete Legend on Love" first appears in her debut poetry collection let the dead in. Perugia Press, who is doing a feature on exceptional, emerging BIWOC poets and artists, have republished "An Incomplete Legend on Love" on their website, featuring a bio of Agostini and information on let the dead in.
You can read the entire poem here on Perugia Press' website.
Or find it in Saida Agostini's debut collection let the dead in.
Reuben Jackson Joins WPFW’s “The Sound of Surprise”
Beginning May 1st, Reuben will begin as host of DC radio channel WPFW’s “The Sound of Surprise.” The show runs from 4 to 6pm and Reuben will be alternating every other Sunday with the program’s creator, Larry Appelbaum.
A Book and Its Cover: Rose Solari Reviews Two New Collections of Poetry for WIRoB
Rose Solari’s latest review column for Washington Independent Review of Books tackles two stellar new collections by established small-press poets, Terry Ellen Cross Davis and Dan Beachy-Quick. As with all her reviews, Rose uses a common theme to link the subject matter of the books she is reviewing. This month, she explores how the cover design is mirrored by the poetry and vice versa.
New Review of Girls Like Us: GLU “Bulges with Debilitating Last Lines”
In Lannie Stabile’s new review of Elizabeth Hazen’s second collection Girls Like Us, she raves about the effect of Hazen’s “last lines.” Girls Like Us, she says, is “bulging with debilitating last lines.” Like this one in the opening poem “Devices,” that Stabile points to as like a “hook,” “We’ve been called so many things that we are not, we startle at the sound of our own names.”