AMRI

Issue 53 of American Microreviews & Interviews is here! Please check out our stellar Summer 2021 edition, featuring reviews of new books by @amorak, @DeMistyB, Conor Bracken, Zach VandeZande, and more. #WritingCommunity americanmicroreviews.com/issue-53

My review of. @angeladribben's EVERYGIRL, is up at @AMRIJournal americanmicroreviews.com/everygirl-by-a…

@RubenQuesada We specialize in microreviews — succinct but rich explorations of notable new books (poetry and fiction). americanmicroreviews.com/peculiar-herit…

"In Walkman, I found that Robbins’ ironic distance was a roundabout way of disarming the reader and allowing an incredibly potent voice to shine through." Brett Belcastro reviews Walkman by Michael Robbins in @AMRIJournal Issue 53. @PenguinBooks americanmicroreviews.com/walkman-by-mic…

"Brautigan meets Bachelard meets Twilight Zone: Zach VandeZande’s collection of vignettes is whimsical, surreal, and eerily familiar." Check out Alana Kelley's review of Liminal Domestic Stories by Zach VandeZande. @GoldWakePress americanmicroreviews.com/liminal-domest…

"A deft hand continues to describe intimate details—poem after poem—with exquisite precision." @risaden reviews the powerful collection Everygirl by Angela Dribben in Issue 53 of @AMRIJournal. @MainStreetRag #writingcommunity americanmicroreviews.com/everygirl-by-a…

"Conor Bracken’s The Enemy of My Enemy Is Me treads the stolid waters and vile mud of a no-man’s land created by vicious American violence." Check out Sarah Senseny's trenchant review in @AMRIJournal Issue 53. @DiodeEditions #WritingCommunity americanmicroreviews.com/the-enemy-of-m…

A powerful textual, vernacular, and craft reclamation, "Erase the Patriarchy contains poems that wrestle back power and agency" @AMRIJournal Editor Elise Matthews reviews Erase the Patriarchy: An Anthology of Erasure Poetry, edited by Isobel O’Hare. americanmicroreviews.com/erase-the-patr…

"Fluid yet dialectically alert," Peculiar Heritage offers an essential cartography of racial consciousness and human resilience. Margot Douaihy reviews DeMisty D. Bellinger's "blazing" new book in AMRI Issue 53. @DeMistyB @masonjarpress @MargotDouaihy americanmicroreviews.com/peculiar-herit…

Dad Jokes From Late in the Patriarchy by @amorak is an "astonishing work of droll, self-deprecating, unclothed insights about masculinity." Check out our insightful book review by @risaden. #WritingCommunity @SundressPub americanmicroreviews.com/dad-jokes-from…

We love @megan_alpert's The Animal at Your Side from @airliepress2, which "offer[s] the message of resilience, of having come through a dark place not entirely alone." Check out the rest of our review: bit.ly/33mAL1S

Issue 52 is here! Check out our Spring 2021 reviews: americanmicroreviews.com/issue-52

Our first issue since COVID hit will drop in a couple of days. We’re excited to share it with you! What have you read and loved in the past year?

@mjlevan @LannieStabile Yes! We only take shorter reviews. Send us an email at amrijournal@gmail.com.

@LannieStabile We do at @AMRIJournal, and we're always looking for new staff reviewers.

AMRI is back after a long hiatus due to COVID-19, and we're looking for contributors. If you're interested in reviewing or interviewing for us, send your CV/resume and a writing sample to amrijournal@gmail.com. Spread the word!

In light of COVID-19, we will be taking a hiatus for our upcoming summer issue. In the meantime, you can check out all of our past issues here: americanmicroreviews.com/archive

“But just as our online data makes arguments about us and also makes us just like everyone else, these poems are rhetorical yet unapologetically discursive and self-effacing.” Google Caroline Knox’s “Hear Trains” and then check out our review- americanmicroreviews.com/hear-trains-by…

“Cory Brown’s latest collection, ‘Elisions’, demonstrates what Anne Sexton says about form and content. Form is a cage, Sexton observed, while the content is the animal that moves in it.” Our review of “Elisions” from our new issue- buff.ly/2CWIwOU

#QOTW: “Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now.” —Annie Dillard

“She is back on solid ground, and she is ready to live again, to be a body again.” Our review of Emily Skaja’s poetry collection, “Brute”- buff.ly/2qMivz1