Orders of Protection by Jenn Hollmeyer (University of North Texas Press, 2019). When Salamander first published Jenn Hollmeyer’s short story “Step Off at Ten” in the spring of 2012, the editors were taken with the story’s subtle power … Read More
Sex & Taipei City by Yu-Han Chao (Red Hen Press, 2019). The Taipei of Yu-Han Chao’s debut story collection Sex & Taipei City both bustles and glistens. It’s a city of industry and aspiration—skyscrapers and metro trains, prep … Read More
The Black River ripples up from the limestone beneath the Ozark Mountains. Standing in its shallows, watching small fry dash and school just beyond the ripples of my steps, I found a rock the size of my palm with … Read More
The trees seemed to hunch closer as darkness fell. Something—a mouse, or maybe a squirrel—emitted a high-pitched shriek, and Marta startled. An owl, she thought. The notion of being seen by something invisible, a creature swooping noiselessly onto … Read More
I. In his entire life, Brother Giorgio has never once thought about rocks falling from the sky. In fact, no one in Milan knows that a stone, like the plum-sized one presently several miles above the city, can … Read More
The emergency evacuation alert is followed by a serene twenty seconds in which I decide to remove the eggs from their ice bath. It’s the simplest action available to me, and I know I can do it well. … Read More
Please join Salamander for the Issue #49 Release Party Thursday, February 20, 2020 6 PM Suffolk University Poetry Center Mildred F. Sawyer Library, 3rd Floor 73 Tremont Street, Boston Please join us to celebrate the release of Salamander #49, … Read More
Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance by Fady Joudah (Milkweed Editions, 2018). House of Fact, House of Ruin by Tom Sleigh (Graywolf Press, 2018). Fady Joudah is the Palestinian-American translator of two of the poet Mahmoud Darwish’s books … Read More
Extravagant Rescues: Poems by Brett Foster (Northwestern University Press, 2019). First of all, in the interest of full disclosure, Brett Foster was my classmate in the Graduate Creative Writing program at Boston University. In 2015, Brett died from … Read More
Asylum: Improvisations on John Clare by Lola Haskins (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019). The word asylum, the title of Lola Haskins’ capacious, questing new book of poems, pivots on a curious and seemingly contradictory double meaning. Merriam-Webster defines an … Read More
Not Dead Yet and Other Stories by Hadley Moore (Autumn House Press, 2019). When my husband and I are back in his hometown, we make a daily visit to New Bethany, the senior living home where his grandmother … Read More