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February 8, 2021

Prose Discourse: Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Alex Andy Phuong|”A Review of The Last Tiger Is Somewhere|Poetry by Robert Carney and Scott Poole”


by Jeff Streeby

December 5, 2020

Prose Discourse: Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Guest Editor Laura Salvatore|”A Review of ‘Outside from the Inside’|Poetry by Anne Whitehouse”


by Jeff Streeby

December 5, 2020

Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Brady Udall’s ‘The Wig’”


by Jeff Streeby

November 26, 2020

Prose Discourse: Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Contributing Editor Alex Andy Phuong|”A Review of Singing Back to the Sirens,|Poetry by Margaret Deritter”


by Jeff Streeby

October 23, 2020

Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Essays on Craft||”List Stories: Lists of the Literary Kind”


by Jeff Streeby

September 21, 2020

Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Yasunari Kawabata’s|’Love Suicides'”


by Jeff Streeby

September 2, 2020

Prose Discourse: Book Review|Poetry: All forms & styles||Contributing Editor Nureni Ibrahim|A Review of Tolu Akinyemi’s|”I Laugh at these Skinny Girls”


by Jeff Streeby

August 1, 2020

Prose Discourse: Book Review|Prose Discourse: Fiction||Contributing Editor Alex Andy Phuong|A Review of And Yes She Was, a novel by Tsipi Keller


by Jeff Streeby

July 27, 2020

Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Augusto Monterroso’s|’The Eclipse’”


by Jeff Streeby

June 29, 2020

Associate Editor Pamelyn Casto|A Featured Series of Close Readings||”A Close Reading of Bai Xiao-Yi’s|‘Explosion in the Parlor’”


by Jeff Streeby

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