Poetry Reviews

Review of Jackson Holbert's Winter Stranger

The Colorado Review (2024)

Review of Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir's “Herostories” (trans. K. B. Thors)

Pleiades (2024)

Review of Mariana Espada 's The Law of Conservation

The Cortland Review (2024)

Review of Sandra Lim's The Curious Thing

The Cortland Review (2024)

Review of Joy Harjo's Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light

Heavy Feather Review (2024)

Review of J. Hope Stein's Little Astronaut

The Los Angeles Review (2023)

Wound is the Origin of Wonder, a new poetry collection by Maya C. Popa, reviewed by Shannon Nakai

Heavy Feather Review (2023)

An American Prufrock: Shannon Nakai on Nick Courtright's The Forgotten World

Tupelo Quarterly (2023)

In Conversation with Maya C. Popa about Wound is the Origin of Wonder

The Cortland Review (2023)

Review of Stronger Than Fear: Poems of Empowerment, Compassion, and Social Justice

The Colorado Review (2022)

Review of Luis Chaves' Equestrian Monuments

Heavy Feather Review (2022)

Review of Taneum Bambrick's Intimacies, Received

and Jenny Xie's The Rupture Tense

The Cortland Review (2022)

Review of Danny Rivera's Ancestral Throat

Heavy Feather Review (2022)

Review of Jesús Castillo's Two Murals

Heavy Feather Review (2022)

"The Holding Places of Impermanence: On Adalber Salas Hernández' The Science of Departures"

Los Angeles Review of Books 

(2022)

Review of Ada Limón's The Hurting Kind

The Cortland Review (2022)

Review of Antonio de Jesús López's Gentefication

Heavy Feather Review (2021)

Review of Katie Farris' A Net to Catch My Body in its Weaving

The Cortland Review (2021)

"Resistance and Rhetoric in Susana Thénon's Ova Completa"

Los Angeles Review of Books 

(2021)

Review of G.C. Waldrep's The Earliest Witnesses

Green Mountains Review 

(2021)

Review of Nehassaiu deGannes' Music for Exiles

The Literary Review (2021)

"Life, Language, and the [im]Permanence of Being in Dora Malech's Flourish"

Heavy Feather Review (2021)

Review of Matthew Mumber's In The Awakening Season

The Literary Review (2021)

"Deafness and Silence as Weapons of Resistance or Scapegoats?: On Ilya Kaminsky's Deaf Republic"

Tupelo Quarterly 

(2019)

"Returning to the 'Shell': On Analicia Sotelo's Virgin"

Tupelo Quarterly 

(2019)

"How Do Eyes and Ears Keep Pace? A Review of Jenny Xie's Eye Level"

Tupelo Quarterly 

(2018)

"Falling in Love with the World: A Review of Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Oceanic"
Tupelo Quarterly 

(2018)