Writings

  • Elizabeth Tavella

    Elizabeth Tavella

    Poetry Review 

    Teardrops on the Weser
    by Amatoritsero Ede
    Winnipeg, MN: Griots Lounge, 2021
    64 pp. $20.99

    With Teardrops on the Weser, Amatoritsero Ede guides his readers on a transformative journey across landscapes and memories bringing to the surface … Read the whole text

  • Giovanna Riccio

    Giovanna Riccio

    Fiction Review

    The Artist and the Assassin
    by Mark Frutkin
    Erin, ON: Porcupine’s Quill, 2021
    213 pp. $19.95

    The Wordsmith and the Half-Fallen Angel

    In The Artist and the Assassin, Mark Frutkin has penned a page turner of lyrical imagination … Read the whole text

  • Mark Frutkin

    Mark Frutkin

    Poetry Review 

    J’Accuse . . . ! (Poem Versus Silence)
    by George Elliott Clarke,
    Exile Editions,
    198 pages, $26.95

    Some poetry whispers. Some poetry shouts. This collection of poetry shouts out loud, with great creative skill. And it shouts for … Read the whole text

  • A. F. Moritz

    A. F. Moritz

     

    Poetry Review 

     Canticles II (MMXIX)
    by George Elliott Clarke
    Guernica Editions,
    2019. 505 pp.
    ISBN 978-1-77183-409-4
     
    In a 2022 text, George Elliott Clarke calls his Canticles series “an expected six-volume epic…that begins with the survey of two … Read the whole text

  • Melanie Schnell

    Melanie Schnell

     

    Heart Calculation Finalem

    The first day she walked into his class a phrase echoed in his mind so loudly that he wondered, terrified, if he’d said it aloud: belle-laide. Beautiful-ugly. He didn’t know how he knew this phrase, … Read the whole text

  • Ewa  Mazierska

    Ewa Mazierska

     

    Lonely Wolves

    When David was in the nursery, the ladies working there used to say that he was ‘no trouble,’ ‘well adjusted,’ and ‘rather quiet,’ which they presented as a good thing. In the first and second year of … Read the whole text

  • Pamela Hensley

    Pamela Hensley

     

    O Fortuna

    On a muggy night in Montreal, three days before graduation, Hubert lay face up on his bed, on the quilt his grandmother made, next to the poems he’d written, imagining Lydia’s lips above his, her hot breath … Read the whole text

  • Shalom Camenietzki

     

    The GrandPuppy  

    “The Dandie Dinmont is a gorgeous-looking and very affectionate terrier,” Karen Lipschitz shared with Morris, her husband, her online research on mid-sized dogs. “Their enormous black eyes marvellously stand out against the background of their brownish coats. … Read the whole text

  • Kate Kavelman

     

    Lust for Life  

    Deep in the woods of Northern Maine, there is a cabin. It is small and made of dark wood. It has only the essential rooms: a bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, and two small living spaces. It has … Read the whole text

  • Arabella Griffett

    Arabella Griffett

     

    A Heart of Forgiveness    

    1890 – Texas

    He would protect her, even if it would be the death of him. Everlee Davis was worth it, plus it wasn’t her fault that people were trying to kill her; … Read the whole text

ACCUTE Journal, The Angle

ACCUTE Journal, The Angle