Book Review
One Day This Book: A Review of Miah Jeffra’s The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic!
We know that body shame. Seeing it, hearing it, we start to question the shaming instead of the bodily experience.
A Lush Poetic Garden: A Review of Sweet Herbaceous Miracle by Berwyn Moore
In her third full-length collection of poetry, Erie County’s inaugural poet laureate tends a lush poetic garden.
“A Holy Multiplicity”: a review of Keren Dibbens-Wyatt’s Recital of Love
Some of the pieces feel exhortative, some poetic, some like love letters, some like the teasing of a good friend who knows you a bit too well.
Analytical Tenderness: A Review of Uma Menon’s Poetry Collection Hands for Language
Menon’s approach in this collection gives us a simple, elegant way to listen to others better.
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The Waking is an online literary magazine and a part of the Ruminate creative community that houses high-quality literary writing about what it’s like to be human. We are interested in short-form prose and image-text hybrid work. This art can be beautiful, it can be strange, we just ask that it feels true.