Richard Leis

Month: January 2018

  • Third Class Superhero by Charles Yu

    Short, genre-defying stories that look at people and things—mothers, relationships, language, infidelity, etc.—in unexpected ways.

  • Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

    An incredible if interminable reading experience made nauseating by deplorable racist interjections (sometimes an excruciating chapter long) and gory slaughter.

  • Shekhinah by Eleanor Wilner

    I find Wilner’s style to be very straightforward and clear (as is her reading style) and her poems full of beautiful sensory detail and movement, featuring persona narrators who are typically distant and generally focus almost all their attention on the subject and themes of the poem.

  • “Leave” By Katie Predick

    Adelaide Literary Magazine magazine cover, Year III, Number 10, November 2017

    I’ve been fortunate to have been in several workshops with Katie Predick, a poet I highly regard. Her poetry is rich with images and surprises as she explores myth and nature and themes of womanhood and parenthood, relationships, science, and human impact on the environment (she’s also an accomplished scientist.)

  • “How We Cured Racism” by Philip Ivory

    Screenshot of Rosette Maleficarum website header

    This is a story that will get under your skin, no pun intended.