First review for tombboy: “masterfully created”

By Christopher Shoust

Roberta Beach Jacobson, editor of the smols poetry journal, an eclectic poetry journal featuring ultra-shorts, five words max. as well as being the editor of Five Fleas Itchy Poetry has been the first out of the gate in support of Mykyta Ryzhykh’s soon to be released concrete poetry book tombboy. “Mykyta Ryzhykh has gained a solid reputation…

Review published for In The Western Night in The Miramichi Reader

By Christopher Shoust

The Miramichi Reader, which publishes more than 100 reviews a year of excellent Canadian writing and has a goal to make reviewing culture accessible for both reviewers and readers, without pay walls, especially like East Coast Canadian writing; and books that are fresh, new, radical and boundary-pushing has just published a glowing review of In The Western Night by Nolan D. Insyte.

Book Review: Persona Digitalia

By Christopher Shoust

Photoworks started a great new venture in 2025 in an attempt to continue the dialogue between photography and poetry in the form of the P5 Photo Poetry Pamphlet Series. As it stated on its website: “photography and poetry have been in dialogue since the earliest days of the camera… Yet despite nearly 200 years of such work and many stand out examples, photo-poetry has not been widely recognized as a distinct genre.”