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9 Aug 2021
Issue 53 of American Microreviews & Interviews is here! Please check out our stellar Summer 2021 edition, featuring reviews of new books by @amorak, @DeMistyB, Conor Bracken, Zach VandeZande, and more. #WritingCommunity americanmicroreviews.com/iss…
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9 Aug 2021
"In Walkman, I found that Robbins’ ironic distance was a roundabout way of disarming the reader and allowing an incredibly potent voice to shine through."
Brett Belcastro reviews Walkman by Michael Robbins in @AMRIJournal Issue 53. @PenguinBooks americanmicroreviews.com/wal…
9 Aug 2021
"Brautigan meets Bachelard meets Twilight Zone: Zach VandeZande’s collection of vignettes is whimsical, surreal, and eerily familiar."
Check out Alana Kelley's review of Liminal Domestic Stories by Zach VandeZande. @GoldWakePress americanmicroreviews.com/lim…
9 Aug 2021
"A deft hand continues to describe intimate details—poem after poem—with exquisite precision."
@risaden reviews the powerful collection Everygirl by Angela Dribben in Issue 53 of @AMRIJournal. @MainStreetRag #writingcommunity americanmicroreviews.com/eve…
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9 Aug 2021
"Conor Bracken’s The Enemy of My Enemy Is Me treads the stolid waters and vile mud of a no-man’s land created by vicious American violence."
Check out Sarah Senseny's trenchant review in @AMRIJournal Issue 53. @DiodeEditions #WritingCommunity americanmicroreviews.com/the…
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9 Aug 2021
A powerful textual, vernacular, and craft reclamation, "Erase the Patriarchy contains poems that wrestle back power and agency"
@AMRIJournal Editor Elise Matthews reviews Erase the Patriarchy: An Anthology of Erasure Poetry, edited by Isobel O’Hare. americanmicroreviews.com/era…
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9 Aug 2021
"Fluid yet dialectically alert," Peculiar Heritage offers an essential cartography of racial consciousness and human resilience.
Margot Douaihy reviews DeMisty D. Bellinger's "blazing" new book in AMRI Issue 53. @DeMistyB @masonjarpress @MargotDouaihy americanmicroreviews.com/pec…
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9 Aug 2021
Dad Jokes From Late in the Patriarchy by @amorak is an "astonishing work of droll, self-deprecating, unclothed insights about masculinity."
Check out our insightful book review by @risaden. #WritingCommunity @SundressPub americanmicroreviews.com/dad…
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6 May 2021
We love @megan_alpert's The Animal at Your Side from
@airliepress2, which "offer[s] the message of resilience, of having come through a dark place not entirely alone."
Check out the rest of our review: bit.ly/33mAL1S
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4 May 2021
Our first issue since COVID hit will drop in a couple of days. We’re excited to share it with you! What have you read and loved in the past year?
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23 Feb 2021
AMRI is back after a long hiatus due to COVID-19, and we're looking for contributors. If you're interested in reviewing or interviewing for us, send your CV/resume and a writing sample to amrijournal@gmail.com. Spread the word!
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17 Apr 2020
In light of COVID-19, we will be taking a hiatus for our upcoming summer issue. In the meantime, you can check out all of our past issues here: americanmicroreviews.com/arc…
2 Dec 2019
“But just as our online data makes arguments about us and also makes us just like everyone else, these poems are rhetorical yet unapologetically discursive and self-effacing.”
Google Caroline Knox’s “Hear Trains” and then check out our review- americanmicroreviews.com/hea…
19 Nov 2019
“Cory Brown’s latest collection, ‘Elisions’, demonstrates what Anne Sexton says about form and content. Form is a cage, Sexton observed, while the content is the animal that moves in it.”
Our review of “Elisions” from our new issue-
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14 Nov 2019
#QOTW: “Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now.”
—Annie Dillard
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13 Nov 2019
“She is back on solid ground, and she is ready to live again, to be a body again.”
Our review of Emily Skaja’s poetry collection, “Brute”-
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8 Nov 2019
“‘The Book of LIFE‘ is another way of interpreting these images, an alternative vision of childhood and nationhood, a camera obscura showing us JFK upside down.”
Joseph Campana’s book kicks off our newest issue: buff.ly/34GTC6I
6 Nov 2019
QOTW: “The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.”
—Andre Gide
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