Reviews
7 Witchy Poetry Books to Read This Samhain
Published on October 29, 2025 by Electric Literature
These 7 poetry books all blur the line between poem and incantation. They resist the mainstream and carve out a space for the mystical, the feral, and the sacred on their own terms. Whether you identify as a witch, resonate with her archetype, or just want something a little spooky to read this Samhain, this list of witchy poetry books is the perfect familiar.
A Review of Kelly Gray’s The Mating Calls of a Specter
Published on April 18th, 2024 by Fatal Flaw
Kelly Gray’s newest chapbook, The Mating Calls of a Specter, is a haunting exorcism that explores in stark, incisive language the profound ways in which sexual trauma imprints itself on the body and changes that body’s very composition.
A Review of Evelyn Berry’s Grief Slut
Published on March 13, 2024 by Fatal Flaw
Evelyn Berry’s debut poetry collection is a vibrant, punchy, pop-laden triumph that explores the poet’s life as a trans woman growing up in the American south. The poems inside are a mix of sweet and tart, grease and glitter, bursting with life like overripe fruit, their juices pooling on the page in all their glorious stickiness so that you come away with their pulpy guts on your fingertips.
A Review of Molly Zu’s Asian American Translations
Published on April 7, 2023 by Fatal Flaw
Molly Zhu’s stunning chapbook debut, Asian American Translations, is a deep and tender meditation on the delicate act of growing up and how time, distance, and differences in culture can create chasms in meaning and understanding. Zhu asks what gets lost in translation, not merely from one language to another, but from generation to generation.