Issue 75 | Summer 2023 | The Critical Flame

A Song Sung to Whoever I Am: Ron Slate’s Joy Ride

Jul, 2023 | by Judith Harris

Joy Ride resonates with the transcendent importance of art in opposition to literal objectification.

Jul, 2023 | by CF Conversations

“There is a strong and rising current of literary hybridity… a collective response by today’s artists to our times.”

Jun, 2023 | by Michael Collins

Voigt’s poems accomplish rekindlings of psyche without overt recourse to their maker’s redoubtable erudition.

Jun, 2023 | by Elsa Valmidiano

History exists in the Black woman body, where history is always now.