Kyle, Aryn. The God of Animals. New York, NY: Scribner, 2008. 336 pp. $14.00 (paper). [View Title on Goodreads.com] The phrase that best sums up Aryn Kyle’s debut novel, The God of Animals, comes toward its very end: “Desert is land that cannot be owned, cannot be controlled . . .” (pg. 304). And even [...]

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The Folger Shakespeare Library houses a rare and almost inexhaustible collection of manuscripts, books, artwork, and other items related to the life and writings of William Shakespeare. But you would be  remiss to overlook the collection of contemporary poetry books lining the walls (and ceilings in some cases) of Folger Poetry and Lectures Coordinator Teri [...]

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Photo © Rachel Eliza Griffiths, 2008 Poet and photographer Rachel Eliza Griffiths [website] was kind enough to send in these new photos of “Post No Ills” stencils–clear evidence that the Post No Ills germ is spreading . . .

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While the I-495 beltway encircling Washington, D.C. may elicit thoughts of morale-crushing congestion and fender benders, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, an online literary journal and resource bank, instead traffics in some of the best writing from D.C.’s literary scene. We talked to its founder and editor, Kim Roberts, about her work with the journal and her [...]

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One of the signature features of POST NO ILLS Magazine is our (Inter/Re)view where we invite two artists to sit down for a live conversation about one work, as there is something about the vulnerability and casual wisdom which comes through in a dialogue that is difficult to capture in a written review. For our [...]

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In the second half [read part one] of “Visionary Literature,” literature scholar Keith Leonard and poet/literary activist Ethelbert Miller conclude by bringing the conversation home (literally D.C.) concerning the increasingly slippery nature of “black” identity and the need for fostering more apprenticeship and speaking of truth to power among contemporary writers.

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Hairston, Alena. The Logan Topographies. New York, NY: Persea, 2007. 57 pp. $13.95 (paper). [View Title on Goodreads.com] About three-fourths of the way through Alena Hairston’s ambitious first book, The Logan Topographies, a poem concludes: “Without the telling there is no record / without the record a question will form yet never sing” (47). A [...]

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