Amy Strauss Friedman – Agape Editions

An Ambiguous Utopia: Review of Leah Umansky’s “The Barbarous Century”

The advent of movements like Me Too, Black Lives Matter, the Never Again student efforts against gun violence, and others speak to inevitable and necessary backlashes against misogyny, inequality, corruption, and violence. These movements are reminders of the widening cracks between what’s long been tolerated (and in many cases accepted) and the reality of what…

Shared Mercy: A Review of Heidi Czerwiec’s “Conjoining”

Heidi Czerwiec’s haunting new book Conjoining (Sable Books, 2017) focuses on the myth of mothers as monsters.

Motherhood Unfiltered: A Review of Megan Merchant’s “The Dark’s Humming”

Megan Merchant’s The Dark’s Humming (Glass Lyre Press, March 2017) speaks to the maternal experience in the most intimate and real ways: its joys, fears, and the eternal, overwhelming responsibility.

Pieces of Us Scattered on the Coffee Table: A Review of Gathered Bones are Known to Wander

In Amy Strauss Friedman’s poetry collection Gathered Bones are Known to Wander (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2016), the familiar is made strange and surreal, and what’s “real” is slippery at best.