Basudhara Roy — Excerpt: A poem is read as much by the ear as by the eye. It establishes a relationship with the reader as much by defying as by conforming to poetic norms. Raychaudhuri’s poems stimulate both vision and sound.
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Albert Abdul-Barr Wang — Excerpt: The cover photograph taken by the author herself provides a clue to the range of themes: self-portraiture, literary craft, formalism, the female body, whiteness in relation to post-feminist America, and natural landscapes versus constructed interiors.
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Samiksha Ransom — Excerpt: In the quietness of my head / would a song break out?
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Kiran Bhat — Excerpt: Agrawal has written many poetry collections before, but Eartha is the poet at her most coherent, focused, and piercing.
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Elizabeth Barton — Excerpt: I had / just anointed the native grasses, / avoided a toilet which demanded / Vaccine-passes
