Jennifer Tseng’s “Not so dear Jenny” (Bateau Press, 2017), the winner of the 2016 Boom Chapbook Contest, is born from a 30-year correspondence with her father. These poems are intimate missives on parenting, longing, and heartbreak.
This Galaxy and Everything in It: A Review of Marlena Chertock’s “On that one-way trip to Mars”
Marlena Chertock’s collection “On that one-way trip to Mars” (Bottlecap Press, 2016), contemplates the beauty on the earth and in the universe and how quickly it can dissipate if we aren’t careful.
Motherhood Unfiltered: A Review of Megan Merchant’s “The Dark’s Humming”
Megan Merchant’s The Dark’s Humming (Glass Lyre Press, March 2017) speaks to the maternal experience in the most intimate and real ways: its joys, fears, and the eternal, overwhelming responsibility.
Interview with Steven Sanchez on “Photographs of Our Shadows”
Will Flaherty talks with Steven Sanchez about the influences behind his chapbook Photographs of Our Shadows (Agape Editions, 2017) and how he accesses vulnerability and strength through poetry.
Know Your Rights: The Five Freedoms of the First Amendment
Learn more about the First Amendment, why it was created, the rights it protects, and how this amendment impacts the average person.
A Human Voice Would Scare Us: A Review of Jessie Carty’s “Shopping After the Apocalypse”
Jessie Carty’s “Shopping After the Apocalypse” (Dancing Girl Press, 2016) contemplates solitude and the will to survive.
Know Your Rights: An Introduction to Agape’s New Constitutional Amendment Column
Fox Frazier-Foley and Julianna DeMicco discuss the law as literature.
Of Melancholy in the Garden: A Review of Sarah J. Sloat’s “Heiress To A Small Ruin”
In Sarah J. Sloat’s Heiress To A Small Ruin (Dancing Girl Press, 2016), household objects and common domestic scenarios breathe, grow, and make choices on every page, but there is nothing common about them.
Interview with Herman Beavers on Obsidian Blues
Herman Beavers discusses music’s influence in his life and poetry. See how music informs the structure of his new collection Obsidian Blues, how jazz and blues help him shape the poetic line, and why music is a way to access personal history.
Interview with Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick on A Stranger Longing
Julianna DeMicco talks with poet Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick about her latest poetry collection A Stranger Longing (Agape Editions, 2017), mental health and bipolar type 2 personalities, and how the outside world influences and informs the internal world.
Let Us Eat Cake: A Review of Kelly Lorraine Andrews’ “I want to eat so many kinds of cake with you”
Kelly Lorraine Andrews’ “I want to eat so many kinds of cake with you” offers an honest, witty look at lust, lost love, and isolation. Seductive as cake.
First-Year Report on the Poetic Equity Initiative
Agape Editions partnered with KHEL Charities to promote adult and young-adult literacy in underserved communities in the United States.
