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INDEX OF CREATIVE REVIEWS

The Bind publishes traditional and creative reviews, and we hope that our creative review forms and supplements can serve as pedagogical tools. To help you navigate the various forms used on The Bind, we've created the index below.

If you're looking for a chronological archive of all reviews, that can be found over here. 

 

  • All Creative Reviews
    • Feb 26, 2021 Franny Choi's Soft Science (Alice James, 2019)
    • Jan 22, 2021 Lisa Summe’s Say It Hurts (YesYesBooks, 2021)
    • Oct 23, 2020 Lindsay Tigue's System of Ghosts (U of Iowa, 2016)
    • Aug 28, 2020 Takako Arai’s Factory Girls (Action Books, 2019) & Leslie Kaplan’s Excess—The Factory (Commune Editions, 2018)
    • Aug 14, 2020 Jan Bottiglieri's Everything Seems Significant: The Blade Runner Poems (BlazeVOX, 2019)
    • Jul 3, 2020 Julia Cohen's Good Timing & Gertrude Stein (Diode, 2020)
    • Jun 8, 2020 Rosa Alcalá's MyOther Tongue (Futurepoem, 2017)
    • May 22, 2020 Aimée Baker’s Doe (University of Akron Press, 2018)
    • Mar 27, 2020 Alison C. Rollins's Library of Small Catastrophes
    • Feb 27, 2020 Xandria Phillips’s Hull (Nightboat Books, 2019)
    • Feb 17, 2020 Kim Hyesoon’s Autobiography of Death (New Directions, 2018)
    • Dec 27, 2019 Jena Osman's Motion Studies (Ugly Duckling, 2019)
    • Sep 27, 2019 Jeanann Verlee’s prey (Black Lawrence, 2019)
    • Sep 9, 2019 Samantha Giles’s Total Recall (Krupskaya, 2018)
    • Aug 9, 2019 Irène Mathieu’s Grand Marronage (Switchback, 2019)
    • Jul 5, 2019 Karyna McGlynn’s Hothouse (Sarabande, 2017)
    • Jun 14, 2019 Emily Jungmin Yoon's A Cruelty Special to Our Species (Ecco, 2018)
    • May 31, 2019 Bianca Stone's The Möbius Strip Club of Grief (Tin House, 2018)
    • May 3, 2019 Alicia Jo Rabins’s Fruit Geode (Augury Books, 2018)
    • Mar 22, 2019 Vievee Francis's Forest Primeval (Triquarterly, 2015)
    • Dec 27, 2018 Review of Soham Patel’s to afar from afar (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2018)
    • Dec 20, 2018 Review of Hadara Bar-Nadav's The New Nudity (Saturnalia, 2017)
    • Dec 13, 2018 Review of Sally Rosen Kindred's Says the Forest to the Girl (Porkbelly Press, 2018)
    • Dec 6, 2018 Review of Sally Rosen Kindred's Says the Forest to the Girl (Porkbelly Press, 2018)
    • Nov 29, 2018 Review of L.I. Henley’s Starshine Road (Perugia, 2017)
    • Nov 1, 2018 Review of Kelli Anne Noftle's Adam Cannot Be Adam (Omnidawn, 2017)
    • Sep 27, 2018 Review of Amy Pence's [It] Incandescent (Ninebark Press, 2018)
    • Sep 13, 2018 Review of Lara Mimosa Montes's The Somnambulist (Horse Less Press, 2016)
    • Aug 16, 2018 Diane Seuss's Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl (Graywolf, 2018)
    • Aug 3, 2018 Review of Kim Yideum's Cheer Up, Femme Fatale (Action Books, 2016)
    • Jul 19, 2018 Review of Jennifer Jackson Berry’s The Feeder (YesYes Books, 2016)
    • May 25, 2018 Review of Cait Weiss Orcutt’s VALLEYSPEAK (Zone 3 Press, 2017)
    • Dec 14, 2017 Review of Nicole Homer's Pecking Order (Write Bloody, 2017)
    • Dec 7, 2017 Review of Human-Ghost Hybrid Project by Carol Guess & Daniela Olszewska (Black Lawrence, 2017)
    • Nov 30, 2017 Review of jayy dodd's Mannish Tongues (Platypus Press, 2017)
    • Nov 23, 2017 Review of Nikki Wallschlaeger's Crawlspace (Bloof Books, 2017)
    • Nov 2, 2017 Review of Lisa Allen Ortiz's Guide to the Exhibit (Perugia, 2016)
    • Oct 26, 2017 Review of Lynn Melnick’s Landscape with Sex and Violence (YesYes, 2017)
    • Oct 12, 2017 Review of Sophie Klahr's Meet Me Here at Dawn (YesYes Books, 2016)
    • Sep 21, 2017 Review of Megan Levad's Why We Live in the Dark Ages (Tavern Books, 2015)
    • Sep 14, 2017 Review of Sara Uribe's Antígona González (Les Figues Press, 2016)
    • Sep 7, 2017 Review of Kathleen McGookey's Heart in a Jar (White Pine, 2017)
    • Aug 31, 2017 Review of Catherine Pierce's The Tornado Is the World (Saturnalia, 2016)
    • Aug 24, 2017 Review of Imani Sims's (A)Live Heart (Sibling Rivalry, 2016)
    • Aug 17, 2017 Review of Jordan Rice's Constellarium (Orison Books, April 2016)
    • Aug 10, 2017 Review of Melissa Broder's Last Sext (Tin House, 2016)
    • Aug 3, 2017 Review of Jessica Jacobs's In Whatever Light Left to Us (Sibling Rivalry, 2016)
    • Jul 27, 2017 Review of Shelley Wong's Rare Birds (Diode Editions, 2017)
    • Jul 20, 2017 Review of Jenny Johnson's In Full Velvet (Sarabande, 2017)
    • Jul 6, 2017 Review of Jennifer Givhan's Protection Spell (University of Arkansas Press, 2017)
    • Jun 29, 2017 Review of Olivia Gatwood's New American Best Friend (Button Poetry, 2017)
    • Jun 22, 2017 Review of Aziza Barnes's i be, but i ain't (YesYes Books, 2016)
    • Jun 8, 2017 Review of Essy Stone's What It Done to Us (Lost Horse Press, 2017)
    • Jun 1, 2017 Review of Laurie Ann Guerrero's A Crown for Gumecindo (Aztlan Libre, 2015)
    • May 25, 2017 Review of Marisa Crawford’s Reversible (Switchback Books, 2017)
    • May 18, 2017 Review of Leah Poole Osowski's Hover Over Her (Kent State University, 2016)
    • May 11, 2017 Review of Tiana Clark’s Equilibrium (Bull City Press, 2016)
    • May 4, 2017 Review of Joshua Jennifer Espinoza's There Should Be Flowers (CCM, 2016) and Sarah Messer's Dress Made of Mice (Black Lawrence Press, 2015)
    • May 3, 2017 Review of Claudia Cortese's Wasp Queen (Black Lawrence Press, 2016)
    • May 2, 2017 Review of Debora Kuan's Lunch Portraits (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2016)
    • May 1, 2017 Review of francine j. harris’s play dead (Alice James, 2016)
  • Audio
    • Aug 9, 2019 Irène Mathieu’s Grand Marronage (Switchback, 2019)
    • May 3, 2019 Alicia Jo Rabins’s Fruit Geode (Augury Books, 2018)
    • Aug 31, 2017 Review of Catherine Pierce's The Tornado Is the World (Saturnalia, 2016)
  • Bad Drawings
    • Jul 31, 2017 Katherine Webb's Bad Drawings for Good Poetry: Jones
    • Jun 26, 2017 Katherine Webb's Bad Drawings for Good Poetry: Mortara
    • May 22, 2017 Katherine Webb's Bad Drawings for Good Poetry: Limón
  • Calendars
    • Aug 3, 2017 Review of Jessica Jacobs's In Whatever Light Left to Us (Sibling Rivalry, 2016)
  • Centos
    • Jan 22, 2021 Lisa Summe’s Say It Hurts (YesYesBooks, 2021)
    • Aug 28, 2020 Takako Arai’s Factory Girls (Action Books, 2019) & Leslie Kaplan’s Excess—The Factory (Commune Editions, 2018)
    • Jun 14, 2019 Emily Jungmin Yoon's A Cruelty Special to Our Species (Ecco, 2018)
    • Dec 6, 2018 Review of Sally Rosen Kindred's Says the Forest to the Girl (Porkbelly Press, 2018)
    • Jan 12, 2018 Review of Khaty Xiong's Poor Anima (Apogee, 2015)
    • Dec 7, 2017 Review of Human-Ghost Hybrid Project by Carol Guess & Daniela Olszewska (Black Lawrence, 2017)
    • Nov 23, 2017 Review of Nikki Wallschlaeger's Crawlspace (Bloof Books, 2017)
    • Sep 7, 2017 Review of Kathleen McGookey's Heart in a Jar (White Pine, 2017)
    • Jul 27, 2017 Review of Shelley Wong's Rare Birds (Diode Editions, 2017)
    • May 25, 2017 Review of Marisa Crawford’s Reversible (Switchback Books, 2017)
    • May 1, 2017 Review of francine j. harris’s play dead (Alice James, 2016)
  • Charts
    • Feb 26, 2021 Franny Choi's Soft Science (Alice James, 2019)
  • Collaboration
    • May 8, 2020 Collaborative Interview: Molberg & Nuernberger
    • Mar 10, 2018 Review of Elizabeth Bradfield’s Once Removed (Persea Books, 2015)
    • Dec 7, 2017 Review of Human-Ghost Hybrid Project by Carol Guess & Daniela Olszewska (Black Lawrence, 2017)
    • Aug 17, 2017 Review of Jordan Rice's Constellarium (Orison Books, April 2016)
    • Jun 8, 2017 Review of Essy Stone's What It Done to Us (Lost Horse Press, 2017)
  • Collaborative Interviews
    • Sep 25, 2020 Collaborative Interview: Cummings & Graue
    • Sep 18, 2020 Collaborative Interview: Graue & Cummings
    • Jul 18, 2020 Collaborative Interview: George & Camp
    • May 8, 2020 Collaborative Interview: Molberg & Nuernberger
  • Collage
    • Aug 28, 2020 Takako Arai’s Factory Girls (Action Books, 2019) & Leslie Kaplan’s Excess—The Factory (Commune Editions, 2018)
    • Jul 3, 2020 Julia Cohen's Good Timing & Gertrude Stein (Diode, 2020)
    • Sep 9, 2019 Samantha Giles’s Total Recall (Krupskaya, 2018)
    • Jul 5, 2019 Karyna McGlynn’s Hothouse (Sarabande, 2017)
    • Nov 29, 2018 Review of L.I. Henley’s Starshine Road (Perugia, 2017)
    • Nov 8, 2018 Review of Erika Meitner’s Holy Moly Carry Me (BOA, 2018)
    • Aug 3, 2018 Review of Kim Yideum's Cheer Up, Femme Fatale (Action Books, 2016)
    • Sep 21, 2017 Review of Megan Levad's Why We Live in the Dark Ages (Tavern Books, 2015)
    • Jul 27, 2017 Review of Shelley Wong's Rare Birds (Diode Editions, 2017)
    • Jul 20, 2017 Review of Jenny Johnson's In Full Velvet (Sarabande, 2017)
    • Jun 1, 2017 Review of Laurie Ann Guerrero's A Crown for Gumecindo (Aztlan Libre, 2015)
  • Conversations
    • Sep 13, 2018 Review of Lara Mimosa Montes's The Somnambulist (Horse Less Press, 2016)
    • Dec 21, 2017 Interview with Lucy Biederman on The Walmart Book of the Dead (Vine Leaves Press, 2017)
    • Nov 30, 2017 Review of jayy dodd's Mannish Tongues (Platypus Press, 2017)
    • Oct 26, 2017 Review of Lynn Melnick’s Landscape with Sex and Violence (YesYes, 2017)
    • Aug 10, 2017 Review of Melissa Broder's Last Sext (Tin House, 2016)
    • Jul 27, 2017 Review of Shelley Wong's Rare Birds (Diode Editions, 2017)
    • Jul 20, 2017 Review of Jenny Johnson's In Full Velvet (Sarabande, 2017)
    • Jun 8, 2017 Review of Essy Stone's What It Done to Us (Lost Horse Press, 2017)
    • May 11, 2017 Review of Tiana Clark’s Equilibrium (Bull City Press, 2016)
    • May 4, 2017 Review of Joshua Jennifer Espinoza's There Should Be Flowers (CCM, 2016) and Sarah Messer's Dress Made of Mice (Black Lawrence Press, 2015)
  • Diagrams
    • Feb 17, 2020 Kim Hyesoon’s Autobiography of Death (New Directions, 2018)
    • Dec 27, 2019 Jena Osman's Motion Studies (Ugly Duckling, 2019)
    • Dec 13, 2018 Review of Sally Rosen Kindred's Says the Forest to the Girl (Porkbelly Press, 2018)
    • Nov 1, 2018 Review of Kelli Anne Noftle's Adam Cannot Be Adam (Omnidawn, 2017)
    • Aug 24, 2017 Review of Imani Sims's (A)Live Heart (Sibling Rivalry, 2016)
    • Aug 17, 2017 Review of Jordan Rice's Constellarium (Orison Books, April 2016)
    • Jun 22, 2017 Review of Aziza Barnes's i be, but i ain't (YesYes Books, 2016)
  • Drawings
    • Mar 10, 2018 Review of Elizabeth Bradfield’s Once Removed (Persea Books, 2015)
    • May 18, 2017 Review of Leah Poole Osowski's Hover Over Her (Kent State University, 2016)
  • Erasure
    • Jul 6, 2017 Review of Jennifer Givhan's Protection Spell (University of Arkansas Press, 2017)
  • Games
    • Dec 27, 2019 Jena Osman's Motion Studies (Ugly Duckling, 2019)
    • Nov 1, 2018 Review of Kelli Anne Noftle's Adam Cannot Be Adam (Omnidawn, 2017)
    • Sep 13, 2018 Review of Lara Mimosa Montes's The Somnambulist (Horse Less Press, 2016)
    • Jul 19, 2018 Review of Jennifer Jackson Berry’s The Feeder (YesYes Books, 2016)
    • May 3, 2017 Review of Claudia Cortese's Wasp Queen (Black Lawrence Press, 2016)
  • Guides
    • Mar 27, 2020 Alison C. Rollins's Library of Small Catastrophes
    • Mar 22, 2019 Vievee Francis's Forest Primeval (Triquarterly, 2015)
    • Dec 20, 2018 Review of Hadara Bar-Nadav's The New Nudity (Saturnalia, 2017)
    • Nov 2, 2017 Review of Lisa Allen Ortiz's Guide to the Exhibit (Perugia, 2016)
    • Jul 20, 2017 Review of Jenny Johnson's In Full Velvet (Sarabande, 2017)
  • Interactive
    • Jun 19, 2020 Joy Priest's Horsepower (U of Pittsburgh, 2020)
    • Aug 3, 2018 Review of Kim Yideum's Cheer Up, Femme Fatale (Action Books, 2016)
    • Jul 19, 2018 Review of Jennifer Jackson Berry’s The Feeder (YesYes Books, 2016)
    • May 25, 2018 Review of Cait Weiss Orcutt’s VALLEYSPEAK (Zone 3 Press, 2017)
    • May 3, 2017 Review of Claudia Cortese's Wasp Queen (Black Lawrence Press, 2016)
  • Interviews
    • May 8, 2020 Collaborative Interview: Molberg & Nuernberger
    • Aug 23, 2019 Julia Bouwsma's Midden (Fordham University Press, 2018)
    • Nov 15, 2018 Interview with Allison Joseph on Corporal Muse (Sibling Rivalry, 2018)
    • Aug 30, 2018 Interview with Karen Paul Holmes on No Such Thing as Distance (Terrapin, 2018)
    • Dec 21, 2017 Interview with Lucy Biederman on The Walmart Book of the Dead (Vine Leaves Press, 2017)
  • Lesson Plans
    • Aug 16, 2018 Diane Seuss's Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl (Graywolf, 2018)
    • Jan 26, 2018 Review of Eve L. Ewing's Electric Arches (Haymarket Books, 2017)
  • Lists
    • Nov 8, 2018 Review of Erika Meitner’s Holy Moly Carry Me (BOA, 2018)
    • Jul 6, 2018 Summer Reading
    • Dec 31, 2017 2017 Staff Recommendations
    • Dec 14, 2017 Review of Nicole Homer's Pecking Order (Write Bloody, 2017)
    • Nov 23, 2017 Review of Nikki Wallschlaeger's Crawlspace (Bloof Books, 2017)
  • Lyrical Reviews
    • Sep 9, 2019 Samantha Giles’s Total Recall (Krupskaya, 2018)
    • Aug 9, 2019 Irène Mathieu’s Grand Marronage (Switchback, 2019)
    • May 31, 2019 Bianca Stone's The Möbius Strip Club of Grief (Tin House, 2018)
    • Dec 27, 2018 Review of Soham Patel’s to afar from afar (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2018)
    • Dec 7, 2017 Review of Human-Ghost Hybrid Project by Carol Guess & Daniela Olszewska (Black Lawrence, 2017)
    • Oct 12, 2017 Review of Sophie Klahr's Meet Me Here at Dawn (YesYes Books, 2016)
    • Sep 21, 2017 Review of Megan Levad's Why We Live in the Dark Ages (Tavern Books, 2015)
    • Sep 14, 2017 Review of Sara Uribe's Antígona González (Les Figues Press, 2016)
  • Maps
    • Jun 19, 2020 Joy Priest's Horsepower (U of Pittsburgh, 2020)
    • Feb 27, 2020 Xandria Phillips’s Hull (Nightboat Books, 2019)
    • Feb 17, 2020 Kim Hyesoon’s Autobiography of Death (New Directions, 2018)
    • Dec 27, 2019 Jena Osman's Motion Studies (Ugly Duckling, 2019)
    • May 25, 2018 Review of Cait Weiss Orcutt’s VALLEYSPEAK (Zone 3 Press, 2017)
  • Marginalia
    • Nov 8, 2018 Review of Erika Meitner’s Holy Moly Carry Me (BOA, 2018)
    • Sep 27, 2018 Review of Amy Pence's [It] Incandescent (Ninebark Press, 2018)
    • Nov 2, 2017 Review of Lisa Allen Ortiz's Guide to the Exhibit (Perugia, 2016)
  • Photography
    • Aug 16, 2018 Diane Seuss's Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl (Graywolf, 2018)
  • Quizzes
    • Jun 29, 2017 Review of Olivia Gatwood's New American Best Friend (Button Poetry, 2017)
  • Visual
    • Aug 14, 2020 Jan Bottiglieri's Everything Seems Significant: The Blade Runner Poems (BlazeVOX, 2019)
    • May 22, 2020 Aimée Baker’s Doe (University of Akron Press, 2018)
    • Mar 27, 2020 Alison C. Rollins's Library of Small Catastrophes
    • Feb 27, 2020 Xandria Phillips’s Hull (Nightboat Books, 2019)
    • Feb 17, 2020 Kim Hyesoon’s Autobiography of Death (New Directions, 2018)
    • Sep 27, 2019 Jeanann Verlee’s prey (Black Lawrence, 2019)
    • Jul 5, 2019 Karyna McGlynn’s Hothouse (Sarabande, 2017)
    • Dec 13, 2018 Review of Sally Rosen Kindred's Says the Forest to the Girl (Porkbelly Press, 2018)
    • Nov 29, 2018 Review of L.I. Henley’s Starshine Road (Perugia, 2017)
    • Aug 16, 2018 Diane Seuss's Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl (Graywolf, 2018)
    • Mar 10, 2018 Review of Elizabeth Bradfield’s Once Removed (Persea Books, 2015)
    • Aug 24, 2017 Review of Imani Sims's (A)Live Heart (Sibling Rivalry, 2016)
    • Aug 17, 2017 Review of Jordan Rice's Constellarium (Orison Books, April 2016)
    • Aug 3, 2017 Review of Jessica Jacobs's In Whatever Light Left to Us (Sibling Rivalry, 2016)
    • Jun 22, 2017 Review of Aziza Barnes's i be, but i ain't (YesYes Books, 2016)
    • May 18, 2017 Review of Leah Poole Osowski's Hover Over Her (Kent State University, 2016)
  • Writing Prompts
    • Oct 9, 2020 Sara Borjas's Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff (Noemi Press, 2019)
    • May 11, 2018 Review of MK Chavez’s Dear Animal, (Nomadic Press, 2016)
    • Apr 20, 2018 Review of Heidi Czerwiec's Conjoining (Sable Books, 2017)
    • Apr 6, 2018 Review of Amber West's Hen & God (The Word Works, 2017)
    • Jan 26, 2018 Review of Eve L. Ewing's Electric Arches (Haymarket Books, 2017)
    • Oct 5, 2017 Review of Donika Kelly's Bestiary (Graywolf, 2016)

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