Atticus Review

01/17/2025

Last week we announced Atticus Review’s intention to venture into the NFT space. Responses to our news ran the gamut from curious approval to abject horror. Quite a few people nominated previously published Atticus poems as contenders for our first batch of NFTs. (Thank you!)

This week, we're talking about previously published work, perceptions about NFTs, and the energy conversation.

Link in comments.

01/13/2025

We sent out our first newsletter in a while last week. We've already received several great nominations from people interested in what we're doing. Thank you! We are really encouraged by your responses. We'll be in touch in the coming weeks. You can still nominate poems you'd like to see become an NFT by clicking the button you'll find in the letter.

Also, thanks to folks who have sent questions and comments. These have helped us identify what needs further clarification. We'll be putting together an FAQ in the coming days. For now, any communication is best directed to our email address.

Upcoming changes to format, minting literary NFTs at Atticus Review.

04/20/2024

We are in a state of transition. We are always all in a state of transition. Here's a note from the Publisher, David Olimpio, on what's to come over the next several months at Atticus Review...

A note from our Publisher

04/20/2024

Our spring issue is out now! Go get you some poetry and !

Issue Seven

04/02/2024

"This Was Back in the Typewriter Days": An Interview with Rick Ardinger

"People who do our taxes each year don’t understand why we’re doing the press. It makes no fiscal sense. Some people have boats and cars, some have good causes they devote their money to. Limberlost is ours."

https://atticusreview.org/34590-2/

03/30/2024

"Episodic Memory Pervades": An Interview With Ricardo José González-Rothi

"The horse, like I was, is aware of its surroundings, the dangers and distractions, but the blinders allow it (and me) to focus on the road ahead, moving forward."

https://atticusreview.org/episodic-memory-pervades-an-interview-with-ricardo-jose-gonzalez-rothi/

03/26/2024

IDENTITY IN THE NATURAL WORLD: Andrew Squitiro’s LOCAL WEATHER
by Geoff Watkinson

"Neither the reader nor the narrator has rational answers to these questions. But it's the questions that aren’t asked, directly, that lurk in the backdrop of the lyricism."

https://atticusreview.org/identity-in-the-natural-world-andrew-squitiros-local-weather/

03/09/2024

"Daydreaming More Than Analyzing and Memorizing": Mariam Ahmed in Conversation With Brent Ameneyro

"I don’t believe writers become politically charged through peer influence or academic indoctrination, at least that wasn’t the case for me. I think writers tend to be inherently sensitive, acutely aware, and can’t help but point out when language is weaponized."

https://atticusreview.org/mariam-ahmed-in-conversation-with-brent-ameneyro/

03/04/2024

Open Eyes, Open Hands: Tenacity and Grief in Renee Emerson’s CHURCH LADIES
by Ian Williams

"This undercurrent of sacrifice cannot help but yield to a deeply and constantly felt grief that permeates this collection."

A book review by Ian Williams.

02/22/2024

When he spoke, his voice sounded like the radio. He was asking for assistance, but he was not asking her. He was asking no one in particular. He simply said, looking up at the wall, “Perhaps someone could enumerate the distinguishing specifications of the latest machine.”

ALMOST NOTHING
by Shaya Kadouri

Fiction from Issue Six

Fiction by Shaya Kadouri.

02/20/2024

STILL TIME
by Patrick Swaney

Poetry from Issue Six

https://atticusreview.org/still-time/

02/19/2024

FICTION'S TRUTH
D. E. Lee reviews True Fiction by Sohrab Homi Fracis

"Does emotional impact affect us more than startling fact? A story is known to be true by the reaction it engenders. The content may be irrelevant. What never happened may be true."

https://atticusreview.org/fictions-truth/

02/13/2024

"Climbing is tricky on the newly slippery branches. After what she’s done, she’s tired, too. But when morning comes, she’s sitting in her favorite crook high up, leaning against the trunk."

TREE OF GLASS
by Kris Faatz

Fiction from Issue Six

Flash fiction by Kris Faatz.

02/12/2024

BOOK REVIEW: Louise Kennedy's THE END OF THE WORLD IS A CUL DE SAC
by Lisa Seidenberg

"One can feel the palpable presence of that dusty shed and the dreary dampness of the Irish weather permeating her lungs as she breathes it in."

A book review by Lisa Seidenberg.

02/05/2024

BOOK REVIEW: Holly M. Wendt’s HEADING NORTH
by Nicole Hylton

"Here is a novel that interrogates identity, language, culture, and grief with two deeply compelling protagonists and earnest prose. Here is a novel that centers the experiences of women and q***r men, two identities often marginalized by the hypermasculine, heteronormative sports world. Here is the novel I have been looking for for the last six years."

https://atticusreview.org/book-review-holly-m-wendts-heading-north/

02/02/2024

"She stands stock-still as she says it and looks more real than usual, like a dream. Closer to the bone than I care to be, as brutal as nature itself. "

A NATURAL HISTORY
by Hannah Weber

Creative nonfiction from Issue Six

Hannah Weber

01/31/2024

WHILE RIDING TO WORK
by Eliot Khalil Wilson

Poetry from Issue Six

https://atticusreview.org/while-riding-to-work/

01/29/2024

Hey Friends, David Olimpio here... I'm back as the Owner and Publisher of Atticus Review. Here's the most recent Weekly Atticus which explains the change. In a nutshell it is this:

1. Atticus Review, a publication/property of Notsolinear Productions, LLC is now a separate entity from Atticus Books & Music
2. The amazing Editors and Staff of Atticus Review, along with the publication schedule, etc are all the same
3. I'll be putting my energy into a sibling publication that will publish poetry on the blockchain; more on this to come

I'm eager to get back into this world and start building new things!

A Note From David Olimpio