“From Proper Nouns to Slant Sonnets: A Conversation with Poet Anya Silver About Place and Time”

Sarah Hughes Interviews Anya Silver Sara Hughes: I am so excited to sit down with you and discuss your second collection of poems. For readers who are unfamiliar with your work, breast cancer is a major topic you write about, so we want to make sure we talk about it, but I’m also really interested […]

Sara Hughes

Sara Hughes recently graduated from Georgia State University, where she completed a Ph.D. in English with a concentration in Poetry. Her poems and reviews have been published in Rattle, Reed, Rosebud, The Oklahoma Review, West Trade Review, Ouroboros Review, Red Clay Review, Umbrella Factory Magazine, Old Red Kimono, Loose Change, Thin Air, and Arts and […]

“Licensed to Lie,” by Sidney Powell

Reviewed by Brandon Stump What do the Enron prosecutions, the prosecution of the late and former United States Senator Ted Stevens, and the suicide of a young Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney have in common? Sidney Powell’s Licensed to Lie reveals the answer. Frustrating and at times tedious, overly long with too many intricate legal […]

Brandon Stump

Brandon Stump lives in Detroit, Michigan, where he is an attorney who has practiced in the area of Civil Rights and worked for the State of Michigan.  Although Brandon is an attorney, he fancies himself an artist and is currently working on a novel. He recently began acting for The Theatre on The Lake theater company in McHenry, Maryland.  

June Read of the Month: “Rough Beast,” by Tim Peeler

Reviewed by Danilo Thomas Tim Peeler’s twelfth book, Rough Beast, issued by Future Cycle Press, concentrates on the life of Larry, a holler boy raised viciously. By utilizing narrative, anecdote, exemplar, and a perspective shift that attempts an objective glance at the subject matter, the four separate sections of poems that comprise Rough Beast parse […]

Sam Slaughter Interviews Charles Dodd White

SS: Where did the idea for this novel come from? CDW: I was interested in a lot of stuff that depicted wilderness and I was interested in some of the things that William Gay did in his novel Twilight, but kind of refining not just the language but the interaction between the characters and the […]