The Winter 2023-2024 issue of Wordgathering includes 11 book reviews. The Spring 2024 special “book reviews supplement” will include an additional 12 book reviews and review essays. The following 11 works are reviewed in the current issue:
- Jennifer Bartlett, Sustaining Air: The Life of Larry Eigner
- Jen Campbell, Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit
- John Lee Clark, Touch the Future: A Manifesto in Essays
- Willy Conley, Photographic Memories: Selected Essays, Playlets, and Stories
- Gretchen Gales, Agora
- Jake Goldsmith, Neither Weak Nor Obtuse
- Katrina Jirik, Living in the Abyss
- Heather Lanier, Psalms of Unknowing
- Clark A. Pomerleau, Every Day, They Became Part of Him
- Brian Teare, Poem Bitten by a Man
- Kathi Wolfe, The Porpoise in the Pink Alcove
As Wordgathering has grown, the number of requests that we receive for book reviews has likewise grown. Writers who would like to review books for or have books reviewed by Wordgathering should send queries to wordgathering@syr.edu. Please refer to our Submission Guidelines for more information.
If you would like to become a potentially “frequent flyer” book reviewer for Wordgathering, thereby joining our (of course, accessible) reviewers’ “pool,” please reach out to us at wordgathering@syr.edu with a short summary of your areas of interest and expertise, a short statement of how you understand yourself and your writing to be in alignment with the journal’s goals, and a short bio, and we will be in touch with you as soon as possible. Thank you in advance for your interest and commitment.