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Derek Webster’s Mockingbird (2015) was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award. He received an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, where he studied with Carl Philips, and was the founding editor of Maisonneuve magazine. His new book of poems from Signal Editions is called National Animal. I thought these superb poems had an […]
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Year in Review: 2023
Novels: The Society of Experience (Matt Cahill) tells a highly inventive story about identity and anxiety in a way that’s quite skillfully written: “We stretched out on the mattress and undressed each other tenderly, as if undressing wounds.” Lump (Nathan Whitlock) is another novel by Whitlock that’s both compelling and features real-feeling dialogue and characters. Whitlock makes it […]
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