Review by Maureen Alsop
National Book Award winner, Daniel Borzutzky’s Lake Michigan, is a book which stands up and will not sit down. The collection, structured in two Acts, declares itself as drama, and unfolds a map of living dread within the United States.
By Maureen Alsop
A particular energy hovers in any visual artist’s studio. Vivid or dank palettes, otherworldly mixtures, the space around the canvas (once the canvas is extracted), various random patterns—splattered paint on the floor, walls, sink. Remnants of a messy, raw, leveling of intention.
Maureen Alsop has completed a 4-part short-video series.The first, “Sweepspear,” features an excerpt from “Papery Bewick Swans/1956 Buick Super,” which was first published in Your Impossible Voice 3.The second, “Terrestris,” was posted at YIV in April.Parts 3 and 4...
By Maureen Alsop
Modernism, the lost generation’s artistic fate, the avant-garde, surrealism: these are historically inseparable from Mina Loy’s writing career. To the hallmarks that denote these concepts, Insel is no exception. Melville House’s publication of Insel revisits this posthumously published novel and includes the addition of a previously unreleased ending.
Maureen Alsop (“Papery Bewick Swans/1956 Buick Super,” Issue 3) has new poetry forthcoming in the journals DIAGRAM, burnt district, Superstition Review, Glint, Thirteen Mynah Birds, and in the anthology Songs for a Passbook Torch. She has also reviewed Brian Teare's...
Maureen Alsop, PhD is the author of two full collections of poetry, Mantic (Augury Books) and Apparition Wren. Her most recent poems have appeared at Watershed Review, Citron Review, and ditch poetry.
Your Impossible Voice #3 features new work from award-winning Cuban writer, editor, and screenwriter Francisco García González, novelist and New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow Susan Daitch, writer, poet, and filmmaker Lonely Christopher, and Gilberto Owen National Prize winner Vivian Abenshushan, and more.