Witness off-duty Elvis, Miss Atomic at home & words as trapeze artists. Explore ghosts in the ecotone, hasty breakups & why reproduction has so many o's. Discover the saltshaker that's buried in the microwave, a sci-fi spacesuit's metallic silver & that desert bone. Edited &...
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Scott Wordsman, at the Colorado Review, writes the following about FDU MFA Poetry and Literary Translation faculty member H. L. Hix's American Anger: "What makes this piece satisfying and rhetorically successful extends beyond Hix’s diction and wit; what flatters is the poet’s unerring command over his subject...
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Fairleigh Dickinson University MFA Creative Writing alum Heather Lang reviews Beautiful Zero (Milkweed Editions) by Jennifer Willoughby.
Heather writes, "Beautiful Zero is strange, and it is important. If I had to liken this collection of poetry to a children’s game, I might suggest pin the tail on the unicorn, for...
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"I have read exceptional books with expertly crafted writing, masterful poetic device, finely honed characters whose voice will haunt me long after the last page, skillfully layered plots probing provocative topics, books that transport me to another world with their exquisite use of detail to...
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Read Out in New Jersey's review of FDU MFA alum JR Pinto's novel, Wolf Mountain: A Werewolf Novel of Haiti.
A synopsis of Wolf Mountain:
In the tent cities of Haiti, beneath the light of the full moon, a howl cuts through the night. Something ancient has come down from the...
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Fairleigh Dickinson University MFA Creative Writing faculty Rebecca Chace's piece, "The Scale of the Beast," is a feature article from the LARB Quarterly Journal: Winter 2016 edition. Rebecca writes:
Jumbo was born in Ethiopia, but he died in show business at age 24. It was his...
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Fairleigh Dickinson University MFA alum Carol Fragale Brill reviews Ask Him Why by Catherine Ryan Hyde for the New York Journal of Books. She opens, "Ask Him Why is a multi-layered narrative with a central theme about the consequences of rushing to judgement without trying to understand the...
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