Miriam Calleja

Review by Miriam Calleja

Parallax by Julia KolchinskyThe University of Arkansas Press, 2025 When it got cold enough that my cat started seeking the heating vent as his new best friend, I dug up an old sweater so he could h…

The term 'intertextuality' may sound like a grandiose literary concept, but its essence is woven through the very fabric of writing and storytelling.

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Batch writing poetry may not sound muse-driven and romantic, but here's one way in which it is.

In Saba Husain’s poem Elegy for My Tongue, from a collection with the same title (Terrapin Books, 2023), the poet uses her language to explore her identity as an immigrant who has left her home in Pakistan and moved to the United States. Her poem…

A book of poetry can land on your lap heavily during a time of contemplation, or it can float down excruciatingly slowly, revealing itself and the message it has for you right now. Tender Machines entered my life when I was thinking deeply about…

‘And then the pandemic happened’ is a phrase we’ve come to expect in personal essays lately. However, I’m here to tell you about how the year 2020 brought a surprising and unexpected experience that took me out of the small island I’d been living on…

In Today in the Taxi, Sean Singer contemplates his taxi cab clients in the short period they spend with him. Each episode is a prose poem of tangents in thoughts, which takes us on the author’s subconscious journey with or sparked by each person or…

Arriving in the Southern United States after living her life in the Mediterranean, Miriam Calleja explores the local culture through salt, barbecue, butter, corn, and sugar. Looking back over the last nine months, I wonder how this new place has…