Reviewed by MW Rishell In The Language of Vision: Photography and Southern Literature in the 1930s and After, Joseph R. Millichap mines a rich stock – the literature of the South – and finds a comparatively new vein, that of photography supporting the cultural aura of kudzu and long memory. Bringing visual rhetoric and the […]
“To The Disappearance,” by Todd Fuller
August 16, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by MW Rishell If Todd Fuller were a baseball player, he’d make a lot of money. In the terms of the diamond, he can play many positions and can play them all well. Someone like Ben Zobrist comes to mind (for you baseball fans). And he would do something highly experimental and inconceivable, like […]
“Dancing with Langston Hughes,” Essay by M.W. Rishell
June 21, 2016 by 1 Comment
We should always be wary of posthumous publications, as it is likely the author held the work back for one reason or another. Seldom are things simply lost to time. But the hunger for more work from our departed authors of legend always overrules these reservations. The New Yorker has circulated, online on May 30 […]
“The Walmart Republic,” by Quraysh Ali Lansana and Christopher H. Stewart
December 18, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by MW Rishell Intertwined strands of DNA have become a popular metaphor, one that comes to mind while reading The Walmart Republic, a co-authored collection of poetry by Quraysh Ali Lansana and Christopher H. Stewart. The poems are gathered into five sections, with the first featuring the work of Stewart and the second the […]
M.W. Rishell
December 16, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Mike Rishell is an instructor at Butler Community College and resides in Wichita, Kansas. He holds graduate degrees from Vanderbilt and Michigan State University, along with an MFA from Oklahoma City University.