Critical Review “Children Can See Every Possibility”
Poems by Children is by John Rybicki, who collected poems from some of his third and fourth grade students, located in Chicago and Detroit. The first thing you notice about these poems is how simplistic each one is on the page, which gives an air of sophistication that we know third and fourth graders lack. [...]
Critical Review “The Runner”
The Runner, written by Justin Tussing, is a story about a couple facing the challenges of becoming parents and discovering the truths about each other in the complicated process of raising their son. One thing that makes this story unique is that the characters are never given names. They are addressed as the boy, the [...]
Critical Review “When I Turned a Hundred” & “Love Silhouetted by Lamplight”
I came upon Mark Strand’s prose poem, When I Turned a Hundred, and I was intensely curious as to what this short little paragraph could tell me. I had no idea at the time that Mark Strand was a poet, so I read the paragraph like flash fiction. The title immediately lets you know that you [...]