Nick Martino Scrap Book Alice James Books / 2026 / 92 pp / $21.95 Paperback Reviewed by James Long, July 2026 Imagine being handed a set of photographs from before you were born, Polaroids documenting your parents facing a trauma that would come to shape your own life. As Nick Martino reveals on the page of his website dedicated to Scrap Book, this is exactly where his debut poetry collection began. Scrap Book is Martino’s attempt to reckon with a past fractured by his fa

Beth Macy Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America Penguin Press / 2025 / 368 pages / $32 USD/ $42CD Reviewed by Kristie Helms Nettles / June 2026 Beth Macy has built a career reporting on the outside forces tearing at the seams of American life. Her bestselling book Dopesick pulled back the curtain on the Appalachian opioid epidemic, and Raising Lazarus followed those who were trying to pick up the pieces. With Paper Girl, she turns her investigative

Aaron Fagan Atom and Void: Poems Princeton University Press / 2025 / 55 pp / $17.95 Reviewed by Melissa Shepherd / May 2026 Aaron Fagan’s Atom and Void proves the paradox of freedom in constraint. Within the confines of their tidy boxes, the book’s fifty-five one-stanza sonnets range through existential ideas and loop together without section breaks in an ongoing interrogation of knowledge and perception. As its title suggests, opposing forces shape Atom and Void, Fagan’s f

Gabrielle Calvocoressi The New Economy Copper Canyon Press / 2025 / 125 pp / $22.00 Reviewed by Morrow Dowdle / April 2026 When Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s most recent poetry collection, The New Economy, was announced as a finalist for the seventy-sixth National Book Award, it came as no surprise to followers of Calvocoressi’s work, long-known for its meticulous attention to poetic craft, psychological complexity, and imaginative use of overtly fictional subjects. Readers

Renée Watson All the Blues in the Sky Bloomsbury Children’s Books / February 2025 / 182p / $17.99 Reviewed by Molly McNamara Carter / April 2026 “I didn’t know / best friends could die,” are the powerful opening words to Renée Watson’s 2026 Newbery Medal-winning middle-grade novel in verse, All the Blues in the Sky. From an emotional first-person perspective, Watson tells the story of a girl who has experienced an enormous loss in the death of her best friend, describing

Taylor Sheridan and Christian Wallace, creators Landman Paramount+ / 2024-present / TV-MA Reviewed by Don Michael Paul / April 2026 Landman tells you what it believes in the first few minutes. Since its Paramount+ debut on November 17, 2024, Texas natives Taylor Sheridan (Yellowstone, Hell or High Water) and Christian Wallace have doubled down on that worldview with zero interest in smoothing the edges. Men are men. Women are women. Oil is king. The Permian Basin, “The P