Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing by Julie Marie Wade
Reviewed by Emily Jalloul // March 17, 2020Mad Creek Books, 2020Paperback, 208 pages, $18.95 “Just An Ordinary Woman Breathing” is Julie Marie Wade’s eleventh book. Her others, a mix of poetry, lyric-essay, and memoir, have garnered wide praise, including winning a Lambda Literary Award, among others prizes. The voice and lyricism that exists in her […]
Skin Memory by John Sibley Williams
Reviewed by Rachel Harper // March 6, 2020The Backwaters Press, 2020Paperback, 84 pp. $15.95 Loss, the pain that accompanies such an experience, and the process of re-purposing that pain to a greater cause are concepts many authors attempt to grasp and grapple with through language; readers hope to catch a glimpse of themselves in the […]