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from the curator/editor of Redactions: Poetry & Poetics

  • Kayfabe Literature

    Kayfabe Literature

    Kayfabe [kay fayb] revolves around the appearance of what is real and what is performing as real. It is much like how professional wrestling presents as real and spontaneous but is fictious and scripted. My students in our creative club at Nashville State Community College on the Clarksville campus developed this genre of literature. Below…


  • How to Tell an Ethical War Story: Perspective in M*A*S*H and Redeployment. By Rebecca Holder Gray.

    How to Tell an Ethical War Story: Perspective in M*A*S*H and Redeployment. By Rebecca Holder Gray.

    This essay first appeared in Redactions: Poetry & Poetics issue 28 – The Sitcom Issue. You can order the issue here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/RedactionsPoetry/ // How to Tell an Ethical War Story: Perspective in M*A*S*H and Redeployment By Rebecca Holder Gray In Jonathan Rosenbaum’s 1998 review of Small Soldiers and Saving Private Ryan, he reflects on the genre…


  • On Sandra Marchetti’s Aisle 228

    On Sandra Marchetti’s Aisle 228

    A version of this review (and a better edited version) may appear in a future issue of Redactions: Poetry & Poetics.// // Warmup // It’s midway through the 2023 Major League Baseball season, and the game is better than ever. There is more action, and with the new pitch clock, the games move faster. It’s also…


  • Kelli Russell Agodon Interviews Jeannine Hall Gailey

    This interview (and a better edited version) will appear in Redactions: Poetry & Poetics issue 27, which is due out in the summer of 2023: www.etsy.com/shop/RedactionsPoetry/ // Kelli Russell Agodon Interviews Jeannine Hall Gailey about Her Recently Released Book from BOA Editions, Flare, Corona // // Kelli Russel Agodon: Jeannine, I just finished reading your…

Kayfabe [kay fayb] revolves around the appearance of what is real and what is performing as real. It is much like how professional wrestling presents as real and spontaneous but is fictious and scripted. My students in our creative club at Nashville State Community College on the Clarksville campus developed this genre of literature. Below…

Kayfabe [kay fayb] revolves around the appearance of what is real and what is performing as real. It is much like how professional wrestling presents as real and spontaneous but is fictious and scripted. My students in our creative club at Nashville State Community College on the Clarksville campus developed this genre of literature. Below…

Kayfabe [kay fayb] revolves around the appearance of what is real and what is performing as real. It is much like how professional wrestling presents as real and spontaneous but is fictious and scripted. My students in our creative club at Nashville State Community College on the Clarksville campus developed this genre of literature. Below…

Kayfabe [kay fayb] revolves around the appearance of what is real and what is performing as real. It is much like how professional wrestling presents as real and spontaneous but is fictious and scripted. My students in our creative club at Nashville State Community College on the Clarksville campus developed this genre of literature. Below…