Call for Submissions: Issue 46.3 Ghosts
Come haunt us. Room seeks writers of marginalized genders for poems full of folklore, creative...
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Review of The Bear Woman in Translation
How had Marguerite ended up on that phantom island, the Île des Démons, crawling inside a dark cave surrounded by wild wolverines and hungry, snarling bears? What scandalous affair aboard the ship had led to her abandonment? These insatiable curiosities fill the writer’s mind, and she is swept away in research, trying to escape her own time by imagining life in the 16th century.
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Review of Beast at Every Threshold
Poems in Beast at Every Threshold attempt both: the consumption of media and narratives is a process of looking for reflections of the self in another, while to “fluent” is to, in a way, translate between languages of love and touch.
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Review of This Has Always Been a War: The Radicalization of a Working Class Queer
In their debut essay collection, Lori Fox examines the intersections of queerness, class, poverty, gender, and mental heath. This Has Always Been a War is written in eleven essays and with each one Fox brings humour, urgency, and just the right amount of anger to conversations that demand attention.
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45.3 Audacity Teaser: Two Poems by Meghan Gagliardi
At my loneliest I choose a lover for every corner of the city
the city is brand new to me and appears completely flat
the water is the bottom edge
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