Oct 08
Fatherless Children by Michael D. Grover, Roadside Press Michael D. Grover’s Fatherless Children reads like a long, ragged hymn to absence — to fathers who didn’t teach, to a country that promises and extracts, to poetry itself as both refuge and condemnation. Structured as numbered vignettes rather than conventional poems, the chapbook forms a single sprawling …
Oct 01
Poet, Sleuth, and Scout: The Noir World of Clay Blackburn Owen Hill’s The Giveaway: The Clay Blackburn Story brings together three novels and a short story featuring the poet-sleuth-book scout Clay Blackburn—a singular character navigating the margins of Berkeley, California, where radical politics, literary ephemera, and existential mystery intertwine. This omnibus serves as both an …
Sep 10
With Her Hair on Fire by Christy Prahl (Roadside Press, 2025) Christy Prahl’s With Her Hair on Fire is a collection of prose poems that read like dispatches from the liminal zones between memory and invention, confession and fable. The chapbook brims with domestic detail—laundromats, hibiscus bushes, yellow houses, hummingbird feeders—yet each poem veers quickly …
Aug 28
Miss Experience White by Milo Johnson, illustrated by John Seabury Milo Johnson’s Miss Experience White: A Poem Cycle is a blistering, hallucinatory journey into the heart of whiteness, privilege, and the monstrous machinery of supremacy. Framed as an illustrated poetic cycle and disguised in the familiar wrapping of a children’s book, this radical autofiction detonates …
Aug 16
The Screw City Poems by Richard Vargas (Roadside Press, 2025) Richard Vargas’s The Screw City Poems is a fierce, compassionate, and unflinchingly honest collection that captures the dissonant beauty of working-class life in America. With a voice that blends raw grit with lyrical sensitivity, Vargas delivers poems rooted in lived experience—poems that hum with the …
May 07
John O’Kane’s The Accidental Jesus is a thought-provoking and highly engaging novel that deftly blends satire, social critique, and spiritual exploration. O’Kane introduces us to a protagonist whose unexpected rise as a modern-day messiah figure sheds light on the complexities of contemporary society. Through sharp, often humorous dialogue, and a rich tapestry of characters, O’Kane …
Feb 09
Puma Perl and Joe Sztabnik’s Under Tenement Skies is a masterstroke of raw emotion, storytelling, and sonic atmosphere. This spoken word blues album captures the gritty soul of urban life, blending Perl’s evocative poetry with Sztabnik’s hauntingly resonant musical compositions. Together, they create a vivid tapestry of love, loss, rebellion, and survival, set against the …
