Reading Night Rooms transported me to the dim orange light of my childhood bedroom. At fifteen, I spent my nights...
Category: Fall 2017
A New Take on Fairytales: A Review of Remapping Wonderland
I, like many people, was raised on fairytales—specifically, the Western fairytales that dominated my elementary education. By the time I...
Review: Brynne Rebele-Henry’s “Autobiography of a Wound”
Nineteen-year-old Brynne Rebele-Henry has made a name for herself in the literary world, since her first book, Fleshgraphs, was published...
Review and Interview: Alison Evans on Science Fiction and Gender Identity in “Ida”
Alison Evans’s novel Ida has been shortlisted for the 2018 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for best young adult novel, and...
Review: Victoria Chang’s “Barbie Chang” Lends Finely-Crafted, Poignant Voice to Life, Love, and Loss
It is an honor to have Victoria Chang as the poetry judge for So to Speak’s annual contest issue, which is...
A Review of “daughterrarium” by Sheila McMullin
Review by Kristen Brida daughterrarium Publisher: Cleveland State University Poetry Center Author: Sheila McMullin ISBN: 978-0-9963167-5-0 Pub Date:4/1/2017 Retail Price:$ 16.00 I...
A Review of “Killing Summer” by Sarah Browning
Review by Holly Mason Killing Summer Publisher: Sibling Rivalry Press Author: Sarah Browning ISBN: 978-1-943977-40-6 Publication Date: 9/21/2017 Retail Price: $14.95...
Review of Sandra Lim’s The Wilderness
Though Lim engages heavily in an existential insistence of death, her poems often sharply turn, as though almost on accident,...
Review of J.K. Daniels’ Wedding Pulls
Daniels' Wedding Pulls is a collection rooted first and foremost in place, that place being New Orleans. Daniels uses place...