All My Mother’s Lovers by Ilana Masad is the well-written story of road trip undertaken by Maggie, the dysfunctional 40-year-old lesbian daughter of Iris. Iris …
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Poem – My Bindle
Here’s a link to a poem of mine recently published online by One Hand Clapping, a literary magazine based in the United Kingdom https://www.1handclapping.online/post/mike-wilson-a-poem
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Book Review – Such a Fun Age, by Kiley Reid
Such a Fun Age is a debut novel by Kiley Reid. The characters are a privileged white woman (Alix), her young black babysitter (Emira) and …
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Book Review – Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod by Traci Brimhall
Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod is Traci Brimhall’s new collection, about 2/3 poems and 1/3 difficult to classify (prosetry? creative nonfiction?). The …
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Excerpt from “A Dream in which the Title is Censored,” in Arranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic, political poetry for a post-truth world, on Amazon …
Continue ReadingBook Review – The Illness Lesson by Clare Beam
The Illness Lesson by Clare Beam takes place in an experimental all-girls school in Massachusetts in the 1870s. The protagonist, Caroline, is the daughter of …
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