Review

By Rachel Cruea The term “carry” means to support or move, someone or something, from one place to another. A woman carries her groceries inside. A paper boat is carried along a river. The sound of a practicing choir carries down a hallway. The verb alludes to movement, carrier and...

By Garrett Biggs, contributor at CU Boulder. For those familiar with Dana Green’s collection of hybrid fictions Sometimes the Air in the Room Goes Missing (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2016), the first line of her debut novel, How to Carry Scars (Kernpunkt Press, 2018), might be surprising: “Olivia’s mother documented the...

By Mike Ranellone, TIMBER Poetry Editor A teammate from high school dies unexpectedly. Motorcycle accident, say. Someone else—a parent or grandparent—leaves this world after months or years in a hospital gown. The person you think you’ll marry calls from 2,000 miles away to say it’s over and that when the...

By Phuong T. Vuong, TIMBER Reviews/Interviews Editor Diana Khoi Nguyen’s poetry collection Ghost Of is a haunting exploration of grief’s aftermath, for a sister and for a family. Musical, visual, personal, and cultural, Ghost Of interrogates loss through a symbiotic relationship between verse, poetic form, and the materiality of the...