Sundress Reads: Review of Follow This Blood to Find a Dead Thing - The Sundress Blog Charles K. Carter’s Follow This Blood to Find a Dead Thing: Poems and Tales (Fernwood Press, 2026) is an explorative, alluring collection of flash fiction, vignettes, free verse, and more. Divided into four sections, the book transforms a vessel of ecopoetics into an examination of human relationships, sexuality, and mental health. Carter’s sophomore release paints pictures of stunning, overgrown, and lustrous … Continue reading Sundress Reads: Review of Follow This Blood to Find a Dead Thing →

In this installment of #SundressReads, Reina Maiden-Navarro reads and reviews Charles K. Carter’s Follow This Blood to Find a Dead Thing: Poems and Tales, available now from Fernwood Press! sundressblog.com/2026/04/15/sundress-read...

Sundress Reads: Review of My Arabic Breakfast - The Sundress Blog Written by Palestinian-Canadian educator, Yasmeen Fakhereddin, and illustrated by Syrian-Palestinian artist, Noor Naqaweh, My Arabic Breakfast (Zingo Ringo, 2024) is a bilingual board book that introduces young learners to Arabic. With vibrant illustrations of Levantine breakfast foods, and accompanied by English translations and pronunciation guides, this book helps children build their vocabulary, pattern recognition, and … Continue reading Sundress Reads: Review of My Arabic Breakfast →

In this week's #SundressReads, Tara Rahman reads and reviews My Arabic Breakfast (Zingo Ringo, 2024), a bilingual board book written by Palestinian-Canadian educator Yasmeen Fakhereddin. sundressblog.com/2026/04/06/sundress-read...

Sundress Reads: Review of That Same Dream - The Sundress Blog I have never read a collection like Jennifer Overfield’s That Same Dream (Glacial Speed Press 2025). The poems, as beautiful and melancholic as they are, comprise only one aspect of a threefold project. They become deeper and more complex when experienced alongside the woodblock print of the cover, designed by Lucinda Cobley, and the musical … Continue reading Sundress Reads: Review of That Same Dream →

In this week's #SundressReads, Rachel Bulman reads and reviews Jennifer Overfield’s collection That Same Dream, available now from Glacial Speed Press. sundressblog.com/2026/04/01/sundress-read...

Sundress Reads: Review of Melody Gee's "We Carry Smoke and Paper" - The Sundress Blog In her vivid debut essay collection We Carry Smoke and Paper: Essays on Grief and Conversion (University of Iowa Press, 2024), Melody Gee grapples with inherited beliefs and traumas, reflecting that   “You can say no to the things you were taught without saying no to the people who taught you” (Gee 113). The teachings Gee … Continue reading Sundress Reads: Review of Melody Gee’s “We Carry Smoke and Paper” →

In this week's #SundressReads, Catie Macauley reviews Carry Smoke and Paper: Essays on Grief and Conversion, the debut essay collection by Melody Gee, available from the University of Iowa Press! sundressblog.com/2026/03/16/sundress-read...

Sundress Reads: Review of The Birth of Undoing - The Sundress Blog The Birth of Undoing (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2025) by Emily Patterson is an unapologetic exploration into infertility, motherhood, spirituality and nature, and survival on the quietest of days. This poetry collection moves through the body and its “failures,” through life in longing and labor, and through marriage and early motherhood. It emphasizes the importance of living … Continue reading Sundress Reads: Review of The Birth of Undoing →

In this week's #SundressReads, Elizabeth “Lizzy” DiGrande reads and reviews Emily Patterson's poetry collection, The Birth of Undoing, available now from Sheila-Na-Gig Editions! sundressblog.com/2026/03/10/sundress-read...

Sundress Reads: Review of LIZZY: The Elizabeth Keckley Story - The Sundress Blog LIZZY: The Elizabeth Keckley Story, from bondage to becoming America’s first couturière (2025) threads fact and fiction into a genre-bending ode to the perseverance of African Americans. Evelyn G. Nuyda, formerly writing under the penname C. Georgina C., conducts readers’ attention with a maestro’s precision, contrasting gravity and levity in a delicate, honest balance. With … Continue reading Sundress Reads: Review of LIZZY: The Elizabeth Keckley Story →

In this week's #SundressReads, Tassneem Abdulwahab reads and reviews Evelyn G. Nuyda's novel LIZZY: The Elizabeth Keckley Story, from bondage to becoming America's first couturière! sundressblog.com/2026/02/28/sundress-read...

Sundress Reads: Review of Lullaby of Love: Selected Poems - The Sundress Blog Lullaby of Love: Selected Poems (2025) by Rebecca Winning consists of poems that explore various shades of love and emotions. Winning writes beautifully to take a moment to appreciate the little things in life. The poems are marked with vivid imagery, personification, and metaphors, allowing a glimpse into Winning’s personal reflection of life and the … Continue reading Sundress Reads: Review of Lullaby of Love: Selected Poems →

In this week's #SundressReads, Marian Kohng reads and reviews Rebecca Winning's Lullaby of Love: Selected Poems! sundressblog.com/2026/02/23/sundress-read...

Sundress Reads: Review of Your Name Is a Poem - The Sundress Blog Right from the first page of Roseanne Freed’s Your Name Is a Poem (Picture Show Press, 2024), the theme of motherhood takes over the page, as does the importance of names. This poetry collection is written from the point of view of a parent and the grief process of losing their child to cancer. Freed … Continue reading Sundress Reads: Review of Your Name Is a Poem →

In this week's #SundressReads, Angela Çene reads and reviews Roseanne Freed’s Your Name Is a Poem, available now from Picture Show Press! sundressblog.com/2026/02/15/sundress-read...

Sundress Reads: Review of earthwork - The Sundress Blog Spanning decades and relationships, dream worlds and memories and therapy sessions, Jill Khoury’s soaring, elegiac collection earthwork (Switchback Books, 2024) invites readers into the volatile and immersive experience of grieving someone both beloved and dangerous. In Khoury’s case, that person is her mother, to whom this collection is dedicated. Through three sections, the speaker reckons … Continue reading Sundress Reads: Review of earthwork →

In this week's #SundressReads, Catie Macauley reads and reviews Jill Khoury’s newest poetry collection, earthwork, available now from Switchback Books! sundressblog.com/2026/02/09/sundress-read...

Sundress Reads: Review of Autobiography of the [Undead] - The Sundress Blog Every once in a while, a book comes along that changes everything for you, that throws open the door of possibility, breaks off the hinges, and demolishes the doorframe altogether, leaving a gaping hole in the Wall of What You Thought Was Possible. To my list, I definitively can now add Emilio Carrero’s Autobiography of … Continue reading Sundress Reads: Review of Autobiography of the [Undead] →

In this installment of #SundressReads, Joseph Norris reads and reviews Emilio Carrero’s poetry collection, Autobiography of the [Undead], available now from Calamari Press! sundressblog.com/2026/02/01/sundress-read...

Sundress Reads: Review of It's No Fun Anymore - The Sundress Blog Brittany Micka-Foos’s debut short story collection, It’s No Fun Anymore (Apprentice House Press, 2025), is a necessary culmination of raw characters and stories that stare directly into the face of wo...

In this installment of #SundressReads, Elizabeth “Lizzy” DiGrande reads and reviews Brittany Micka-Foos’s debut short story collection, It’s No Fun Anymore, available now from Apprentice House Press! sundressblog.com/2026/01/26/s...

Sundress Reads: Review of Blind to the Prairie - The Sundress Blog Blind to the Prairie (Bottlecap Press, 2025) by Tate Lewis-Carroll is a slow and tender reflection on seeing. In this collection of haiku, Lewis-Carroll captures the rhythms of the Midwestern landscap...

In this week's #SundressReads, Penny Wei reads and reviews Tate Lewis-Carroll's haiku collection Blind to the Prairie, available now from Bottlecap Press! sundressblog.com/2026/01/18/s...

Sundress Reads: Review of Child of Light - The Sundress Blog Child of Light by Jesi Bender (Whisk(e)y Tit, 2025) is a complex and gripping story that explores identity, language, and family dynamics as Ambrétte Memenon journeys through discovering who she is an...

In this week's #SundressReads, Marian Kohng reads and reviews Child of Light, the newest novel by by Jesi Bender, available now from Whisk(e)y Tit! sundressblog.com/2026/01/05/s...

Sundress Reads: Review of Wolf's Bane - The Sundress Blog Moon Meridian Novella Award Winner, M.S. Gardner’s Wolf’s Bane (April Gloaming, 2025) toes the line between renowned fable and grotesque reality in a captivating account of one woman’s past, the secre...

In this week's #SundressReads, Tassneem Abdulwahab M.S. Gardner’s novella Wolf’s Bane, available now from April Gloaming! sundressblog.com/2026/01/02/s...

Sundress Reads: Review of The Watch: Time to Witness the Beauty of It All - The Sundress Blog An introspective memoir about loss and life, The Watch: Time to Witness the Beauty of It All (Wildhouse Publications, 2025) by Paula Sager is a healing walk through the process of being present while ...

In this week's #SundressReads, Ana Mourant reads and reviews Paula Sager's memoir, The Watch: Time to Witness the Beauty of It All, available now from Wildhouse Publications! sundressblog.com/2025/12/11/s...

Sundress Reads: Review of Whish - The Sundress Blog The more I read about time, the more I contemplate my relationship to it, and its fleeting nature, the more overwhelmed I get. I become so tangled up in my own bewilderment, I could never really imagi...

In this week's #SundressReads, Joseph Norris reads and reviews Whish by Jackie Craven, available now from Press 53! sundressblog.com/2025/11/20/s...

Sundress Reads: Review of What Do You Want From Me? - The Sundress Blog What Do You Want From Me? (Apprentice House Press, 2025) by Jennifer Dupree is a poignant and heartwarming story that explores complex family dynamics, trauma, trust, forgiveness, and love. We follow ...

In this week's #SundressReads, Marian Kohng reads and reviews Jennifer Dupree's novel, What Do You Want From Me?, available now from Apprentice House Press! sundressblog.com/2025/11/16/s...

Sundress Reads: Review of The Underdream - The Sundress Blog Aiyana Masla wrote her first full-length poetry collection, The Underdream (Conerstone Press, 2025), during and after her struggle with Tuberculosis, to which she almost lost her life. The Underdream ...

In this week's #SundressReads, Hannah Yerington reads and reviews Aiyana Masla's debut poetry collection, The Underdream, available now from Cornerstone Press! sundressblog.com/2025/11/09/s...

Sundress Reads: Review of While Visiting Babette - The Sundress Blog Kat Meads’s While Visiting Babette (Sagging Meniscus Press, 2025) is a surreal magnifying glass, trained on institutionalized cousins Ina and Babette. With a talent for lyrical prose and an intriguing...

In this week's #SundressReads, Tassneem Abdulwahab reads and reviews Kat Meads’s While Visiting Babette from Sagging Meniscus Press! sundressblog.com/2025/11/04/s...

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Sundress Reads: Review of Becoming Sam - The Sundress Blog The Sri Lankan Civil War, beginning in 1983 and ending in 2009, was fought between the Sri Lankan Government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE), a Tamil group that rose up in an attempt to...

In this week's #SundressReads, Joseph Norris reads and reviews Samodh Porawagamage’s poetry collection Becoming Sam, available now from Burnside Review! sundressblog.com/2025/10/28/s...

Sundress Reads: Review of At the Window, Silence - The Sundress Blog Part modern and part reminiscent of Romantic era poetry, At the Window, Silence (Fernwood Press, 2025) by Kenneth Pobo elicits the reader’s emotional side through combining commonly identifiable exper...

In this week's #SundressReads, Ana Mourant Kenneth Pobo's newest poetry collection, At the Window, Silence, available now from Fernwood Press! sundressblog.com/2025/10/21/s...

Sundress Reads: Review of Loss and Its Antonym - The Sundress Blog Alison Prine’s latest poetry collection, Loss and Its Antonym (Headmistress Press, 2024), adeptly explores themes of grief, time, and sexuality with extreme precision through an autobiographical lens....

In this installment of #SundressReads, Emma Goss reads and reviews Alison Prine’s latest poetry collection, Loss and Its Antonym, available now from Headmistress Press! sundressblog.com/2025/10/12/s...

Sundress Reads: Review of Nonbinary Bird of Paradise - The Sundress Blog In Emilia Phillips’ Nonbinary Bird of Paradise (The University of Akron Press, 2024), God is many things: they are “a knot / that knows how to untie itself,” “the first/war,”  a “voyeur, who gave / [t...

In this installment of #SundressReads, Catie Macauley reads and reviews Emilia Phillips’ collection Nonbinary Bird of Paradise, available now from the University of Akron Press! sundressblog.com/2025/09/30/s...

Quote from 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩: 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘵 𝘈𝘭𝘭 by Paula Sager. Full review coming soon to 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘉𝘭𝘰𝘨!
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A quote from 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩: 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘵 𝘈𝘭𝘭 by Paula Sager. Full review coming soon to 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘉𝘭𝘰𝘨!
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Vocabulary for 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩: 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘵 𝘈𝘭𝘭 by Paula Sager. Full review coming soon to 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘉𝘭𝘰𝘨!
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Sundress Reads: Review of small earthly space - The Sundress Blog With an intriguing curlew bird guiding the reader on a journey of metaphysical thoughts and poppies dancing us from page to page, small earthly space (Shanti Arts Publishing, 2025) by Marjorie Maddox ...

In this week's #SundressReads, Ana Mourant reads and reviews Marjorie Maddox's illustrated poetry collection, small earthly space, available now from Shanti Arts Publishing! sundressblog.com/2025/09/11/s...

Sundress Reads: Review of unwordly - The Sundress Blog In the 90’s, Robert Guzikowski had a bout of encephalitis that caused aphasia, which is the inability to form and/or comprehend written or spoken words, or sometimes both. This is the subject of unwor...

In this installment of #SundressReads, Joseph Norris reads and reviews Robert Guzikowski's poetry collection, unwordly, available now from Uncollected Press! sundressblog.com/2025/09/23/s...