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Poetry Review: All That Held Us by Henrietta Goodman

***Previously published on Quail Bell Magazine on March 20th, 2019. As a native Southerner, I appreciate authentic approaches to our unique genre of music, folktales, and other art. The South has many rich and many complicated legacies. All That Held Us by Henrietta Goodman, winner of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, is a fresh new take…

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Poetry Review: Small Crimes by Andrea Jurjević

***Previously published in Quail Bell Magazine on March 23rd, 2017. It often seems our opinion on war changes, but as the video game franchise Fallout often mentions, “War. War never changes.” Perhaps thanks to both my American education and being born in the mid-nineties, I feared my ignorance of the Croatian War would cause me to miss…

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Tourette Syndrome Books Written By Authors With Tourette Syndrome

I had two firsts before writing this post: visiting Nashville and attending TIC-CON 2026. It’s hard to pinpoint the “best” part of the experience, but one of them was getting to see the author’s table with so many authors with Tourette’s presenting their books at the Author’s Table. There are so many of us who…

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Book Review: Pure by Linda Kay Klein

​***Previously published on Quail Bell Magazine on September 19th, 2018. The value of a woman’s chastity has long been used to determine her worth, but the 1990’s brought a unique and insidious form of sexual shaming to a new generation of women: purity culture. Though other essays and books have touched on purity culture’s destructive…

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