Diego Báez
Delicacy, Divinity, and Desire in Five Recent Poetry Debuts (on Ae Hee Lee’s Asterism; Jordan Pérez’s Santa Tarantula; Joshua Garcia’s Pentimento; Mikeas Sánchez’s How to Be a Good Savage and Other Poems, translated from Zoque and Spanish by Wendy Call and Shook; and Justin Rovillos Monson’s American Inmate)
In February, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs held its annual conference in Kansas City, Missouri. Like so many writers with a first book newly published, I wanted to […]
Read MoreIN Fall 2024
Fate, Nation, and Fatherhood: Formula 1 Emerges during a Pandemic in America (on Formula 1: Drive to Survive, created by Formula One and Netflix)
The Worst Incident in the History of Motorsport Circuit de la Sarthe Le Mans, France, 1955 It’s a perfect June day, which maybe explains the turnout. Nearly 300,000 record-setting souls […]
Read MoreIN Spring 2023
on Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness, edited by Anjanette Delgado
Every piece included in Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness, a new anthology edited by Anjanette Delgado, grapples with the concept of “uprootedness,” a term used […]
Read MoreIN Spring 2022
Miguel Collazo’s puzzling, spasmodic novel The Journey (1968) is a multigenerational tale of hapless inhabitants persisting on a strange planet. The novel hopscotches across hundreds of years, yet carries inside […]
Read MoreIN Spring 2021
The title of poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo’s memoir about intergenerational migration derives from mythical insects that are said to inhabit the mountains of Mexico, tiny creatures with incandescent bodies and […]
Read MoreIN Summer 2020