In April of 2025, Milkweed Editions will release Chris Santiago’s highly anticipated second poetry collection Small Wars Manual, which Kaveh Akbar calls “a masterpiece, one of those books I read and know at once I’ll be coming back to the rest of my life.” Alongside MAYDAY’s feature of three poems included in the collection (“6.9,” […]
Xander Gershberg
XANDER GERSHBERG is a Minneapolis-based poet, editor, and educator. His poetry appears in FENCE, The Journal, Plume, TAB Journal, Poetry Online, Great River Review, and elsewhere. He is a poetry editor at MAYDAY and on Spout Press‘s editorial collective. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Virginia Tech.
Erasure Poetry as Anti-Imperialism: Chris Santiago Interviewed by Xander Gershberg
You’re the Woods Too by Dennis James Sweeney
Review by Xander Gershberg
Dennis James Sweeney’s You’re the Woods Too—a hybrid collection of interwoven poems, journal entries, visuals, and stage directions—masterfully intervenes on literary and social figurations of nature in evocative language. Early in the collection, the speaker offers a definition of that operative concept: “Nature (n): the part of the world WE cannot control, no matter how […]
