By Emily Shearer, Poetry Editor, Minerva Rising Press “It was a changeling season,” writes Rita Banerjee in “Atlantis,” just one of the many wholly immersive and well-knit poems that form her newest collection, Echo in Four Beats, released last month...
Reviewed by Emily Shearer We grow through uncertainty and the urge to keep moving to keep ourselves whole perhaps to discover we might be driven by reasons neither noble nor true. Yet the unknown opens prospects; and while clarity may ensue, it’s the...
Reviewed by Emily Shearer, Poetry Editor We are proud to announce the release of a new chapbook by Minerva Rising poet Jennifer Collins, whose work was featured in Issue #3. Oil Slick Dreams is now available from Finishing Line Press at...
Review by Lindsey Grudnicki For the reader, it’s “the vulnerability of letting a story inside” (“Diving In”). For the writer, it’s the vulnerability of letting a story out, of putting your mind and heart and body on the page for a stranger’s eyes. In her debut essay...
Review By Lindsey Grudnicki How far are you willing to go to tell a good story? Would you destroy your friends? Would you destroy yourself? What would you sacrifice to write the perfect tragedy? Norah Labiner’s Let the Dark Flower Blossom contemplates what dark power...