Bisbing Books

10/05/2024

https://www.bisbingbooks.com/book-reviews/human-nature

Native Chicagoan, award-winning poet, publisher of the literary arts journal After Hours , and blues saxophonist Albert DeGenova takes a deep look at youth in Human Nature . Youth of self, youth of country, youth of redemption. The mistakes we make without knowing we’ve done so until we look at th

10/05/2024

Early in the going of Chris La Tray’s exquisite memoir, Becoming Little Shell, a heart-rending scene occurs shortly after his grandfather’s funeral. Sitting with his father at a VFW bar, his old man says of his old man, “I’m not sad. Not even a little bit. That so*******ch never did a thing for me.”

Early in the going of Chris La Tray’s exquisite memoir, Becoming Little Shell , a heart-rending scene occurs shortly after his grandfather’s funeral. Sitting with his father at a VFW bar, his old man says of his old man, “I’m not sad. Not even a little bit. That so*******ch never did a thing...

10/05/2024

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01/04/2024

“In Bisbing’s rooted and riveting chapbook, we encounter a poetic voice that luminously inhabits the Western desolation without romanticizing it. There is a keen light in the eyes of this stoicism, at the heart of these petitions to wind and rock, which land so artfully ‘somewhere between the ...

29/03/2024

29/03/2024

“We come from nothing we can remember, / and travel toward a place we know nothing about, / the margins of our lives closed to us.” —“The Path of Melting Ice”

12/01/2024

Yalie Saweda Kamara is a Sierra Leonean American writer, who was the 2022/2023 Cincinnati and Mercantile Library Poet Laureate.

12/01/2024

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21/02/2022

26/11/2021

Sticky Menus first public debut. https://whiskeytit.com/wt-journal-issue-6/

Recently I fell in love … with reading … again. During last year’s unspeakably bad pandemic winter, reading was impossible. To get my art fix, I mainlined old movies — the noir-er the better. I was…

03/11/2021

Review: A witty, uplifting book that meanders through big spiritual ideas and the challenges of finding happiness in the current state of the world.