With On Broad Sound, Rusty Barnes turns his attention from his rural Appalachian roots to twenty ...

Body Bag should be required reading for every President and member of Congress considering sendin...

The poems in Heather Sullivan's Method Acting for the Afterlife bring me to a world of Donny and ...

They are summers without parents. They are first sexual awakenings. They are rec-room basements a...

Comito's range is expansive, painting emotions and scenes with a stunning ferocity. Bury Me in th...

'I, poet, convoke this minyan of infidels to mourn and to celebrate what remains of our humanity....

Leo Rosten used to quote the Yiddish saying: 'If God lived on earth, people would knock out all H...

Meet Kinky at the intersection of domesticity and eroticism, the sacred crossroads of American wo...

Like looking down, past one's toes, over the precipice and into the abyss, Zvi Sesling's new book...

Clare Martin's Crone glows equal parts magic, music, and muscle. Her lines are laced with ambergr...

Anne Elezabeth Pluto's Lubbock Electric is a gushing exploration of life in which she gives you, ...

Paul Brookes takes us through five stories, pictures of the great and small ironies of life drawn...

The concise, almost cold nature of these poems, and the speaker's persona, is so stark, it mimics...

In his latest collection, accelerant, Bill Yarrow bears witness to nature's and mankind's fierce ...

In Kelly DuMar's girl in tree bark, the past, especially the life of the family of origin, acts a...

With their ravening grace, these blood bright poems call echoes of their kindred - Sappho, Plath,...

Poetry and Fiction from: Hussam Jefee-Bahloul·Gene Barry·Robert Beveridge·Matt Borczon·Pris Cam...

Sometimes the skillful poet plays the alchemist, creating beauty from moments of pain and sufferi...

There is a deceptively light touch here. The humor is never vicious but is always cognizant that ...

In her impressive first collection, Liljegren retells the Lucy stories from the iconic tv show, r...

While reading this delightful collection, I thought of the old Beat epithet, 'gone.' Artists may ...

Gene Barry's gift to his readers is a poet's brilliant, courageous, and powerful rendering of fam...

I love the joy and heartbreak in Karen Friedland's Places That Are Gone. Bachelor apartments, Man...

Lauren Leja is a terrific writer. Her characters inhabit that elastic,kaleidoscopic space between...

In dreams and out of them, this brutally frank confrontation with the work of parenting (parentin...

'The landscape is pleasure sidekicked with fear.' So says the speaker of one of David Miller's po...

Mark DeCarteret's poems wear their elegant disillusionment lightly, as if they knew that only by ...

In¿Now¿Calls¿Me¿Daughter Christine Jones brilliantly flattens time to lament her beloved mother's...

Nixes Mate Review's first print edition featuring poetry and prose from CynthiäBargar, OliviäKate...

Devon Balwit's Spirit Spout - a poetic vision directly engaging with Melville's Moby-Dick; or, Th...

Welcome to the second print issue of Nixes Mate Review featuring new voices and returning voices....

These poems let you eavesdrop on an intense lovers' dialogue at the table next to you, a dialogue...

We're tight into hurricane season here at Nixes Mate Headquarters. No better time than to sit wit...

Eileen Cleary's Wild Pack of the Living is not simply a retelling of Steven Stayner's abduction a...

Dot Girl is a memoir written in verse, with technicolor story bursting from the most beautifully ...

New England without winter is a blessing and a curse. ¡Gracias, El Niño!

In a descent toward what might make our epoch sing in its most falsetto pitch, Vincenz troubles o...

Eve Linn's debut collection, Album of Not, examines the female experience through poems that chan...

In Feast of the Seven Fishes, Linda Lamenza uses both nuance and precise language to invite us in...

¡Ghost bicycles, hurricanes, elections, war! No one could have predicted this. Well, they did, bu...

Pris Campbell has taken her lyrical skills into the realm of Tanka and owns it. Over 13 centuries...

'Three thousand ancestors ask how I straddle the sea, a foot on either shore,' Anastasia Vassos w...

As I read Eileen Cleary's 2 a.m. with Keats, I felt breathless, suspended in a place of red keys,...

Comes To This is a landmark for the strange times we live in. More profoundly, Jeff Weddle is a w...

Dog-Walking in the Shadow of Pyongyang provides voyagers with all the essentials: map, compass, m...

Like a fiery sea nymph, Deweese skillfully navigates the challenging waters of the universe. A qu...

Mallarmé's symbolism invoked early on, DeCarteret's poems speak of a life spent in conversation w...

The best poetry and fiction of Nixes Mate Review published during the Covid-19 Pandemic featuring...