The Courtship of the Vampyrehad been released as promised in February 2013. While writing the poems, I’d discovered even more characters demanding their voices be heard in the Kayne Legacy Series. I’ve even toyed with the idea of changing the name of the series to The Guardians of the N...
STEPHEN CUSHMAN is Robert C. Taylor Professor of English at the University of Virginia, where he directs the International Center for American studies. His most recent book of poems is Cussing Lesson (Louisiana State University Press, 2002).;...
I have certain reoccurring dreams. One of them is that I have to go to the bathroom really bad, like pee my pants kind of bad. I go into to the public restroom and it is an absolute disgusting mess. Stall doors are gone, toilet paper everywhere, seats are wet, not flushed. You ge...
For the past two years, Fern G. Z. Carr’s poems have been published in the journal. The Kelowna-based poet said her writing style is very eclectic and thinks the Review is more open to experimental poetry than most other publications. Both of her contributions to last year’s journal we...
The Angel of Death looks sleepy. His face shows nothing. His eyes are closed. Charles Cullen sits motionless in the wooden defendant’s chair of the Somerset County Courthouse as, hour after hour, his victims’ families take the stand. They read poems and show photographs, they weep and yel...