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the blueshift journal
blueshift / ˈblo͞oˌSHift / noun
the displacement of the spectrum to shorter wavelengths in the light coming from distant celestial objects moving toward the observer.
Review of how to get over by t'ai freedom ford
by beyza ozer, guest book reviewer Sometimes, when or if you are lucky enough, you can feel your soul touch with another. It can act as a...
Review of Then Winter by Chloe Honum
by katherine frain, guest book reviewer The only unfortunate part of reviewing Chloe Honum’s writing is that next to her glistening...
“Great Pain into Art”: On Tomás Q. Morín’s Patient Zero
by rj eldridge, guest book reviewer Love is a worried, old heart disease, as Son House once put it, the very stuff blues are made of …...
Review of The Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded by Molly McCully Brown
by katherine frain, guest book reviewer I had never before heard of a blind room, and after reading Molly McCully Brown’s debut poetry...
A Guardian to Others’ Solitude: Review of Jenny Johnson’s In Full Velvet
by roy guzmán, guest book reviewer In the introduction to his book, Cruising Utopia, the late José Esteban Muñoz remarks on the...
Review of WHEREAS by Layli Long Soldier
by beyza ozer, guest book reviewer WHEREAS, finding yourself in a bed made of long lakes. WHEREAS, a poem that rejects a form/morphs a...
Haunted Reflection: Review of Kaveh Akbar’s Portrait of the Alcoholic
by roy guzmán, guest book reviewer For many years, my uncle was an alcoholic. Stories of his alcoholism have become walls in the...
Facts About Wasps: Review of Wasp Queen by Claudia Cortese
by roy guzmán, guest book reviewer ///. The presence of wasps makes me uncomfortable. The thought of them brushing against my arms has...
Review of Landscape with Headless Mama by Jennifer Givhan
by brianna albers, reviews editor We three generations of women & a cat, & outside / whips of bare black branches scattering moonlight, /...
Review of The Crown Ain't Worth Much by Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib
by brianna albers, reviews editor And isn’t this how each story starts? With a list of things we know we cannot take back? And, still....
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