TTR – The Tusculum Review

Meredith Barton | Book Review

Meredith Barton reviews Eliza Griswold’s poem “Responding to the World” in If Men, Then.

Charlie Finger | Book Review

27JuneTTRReviewsBook Review, Charlie Finger, Shelby Eileen

Book cover by Izza Thapa Goddess of the HuntShelby EileenAmazon, 2019Kindle: 105 pages; $2.99 The “A” Isn’t Silent Netflix and the New York Times’ bestselling lists are being filled with new stories about LGBTQ+ characters and their struggles. The queer community never imagined accurate, unsexualized content being made for the queer community, but every year,

PJ Green | Book Review

21FebruaryTTRReviewsBassey Ikpi, Book Review, PJ Green

I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying Bassey Ikpi Harper Perennial, 2019Paperback: 272 pages; $15.99 Bassey Ikpi writes the broken, beautiful truth about living with bipolar II disorder On ESPN’s podcast The Right Time with Bomani Jones, Bassey Ikpi says that I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying was initially pitched as a self-help, positivity

Meet Our New Featured Artist Editor

19FebruaryTTRTTR NewsEditor, Featured Artists, Rachel Swatzell

Rachel Swatzell is a Senior Creative Writing and Literature major at Tusculum University. Swatzell is published in The Blue Route, The Tusculum Review, The Mildred Haun Review, SHIFT: a publication of MTSU Write, and Entropy Magazine. Swatzell is the recipient of the 2018-2019 Curtis Owens Literary Award for poetry and drama. She currently serves as

Tanya Paperny, 2019 Chapbook Winner

13NovemberTTRContest Winners, Literary Prizes

Tanya Paperny, winner of the 2019 Tusculum Review Poetry Chapbook Prize. “How the Russians Ruined Their Glasses” and other poems selected by judge Bhanu Kapil.

2019 Issue Launched

13NovemberTTRTTR News

The 2019 issue of The Tusculum Review has been launched, featuring Chapbook Prize winner Tanya Paperny, National Book Award winners Justin Phillip Reed and Nathaniel Mackey, Katherine Mooney Brooks, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Graham Hillard, Gwen Sachs, J.R. Gerow, Tria Blu Wakpa, Rachel Mennies, X.C. Atkins, and more.

Rachel Swatzell | TRR Student Staff Book Review

15JanuaryTTRReviews, TTR News Archivesa falling knife has no handle, Emily O’Neil, Rachel Swatzell

Click here to read a review of Emily O’Neill’s poetry collection, a falling knife has no handle.

Featured Artist: Jessica Cogar

2DecemberTTRFeatured ArtistJessica Cogar

TTR’s new Featured Artist Editor Jennie Frost brings you Jessica Cogar. Enjoy.

Jessica Cogar

2DecemberTTRFeatured ArtistJessica Cogar

WHAT I AM TRYING TO TELL YOU IS Her name could have been anything, anything wet and unburning. Besides, you don’t need a name to make a prayer: like all air, they resist such things. Invocation is tricky. You never who will come when you call. You can end up with things you never asked

Jessica Coger

2DecemberTTRFeatured ArtistJessica Cogar

SUMMER STUDY For summer: swallow the petal and the bee and blow first-rate sour diesel into my mouth. This is what you do in Ohio, you’re gonna fit right in. In Ohio we cherish our hauntings, but it’s okay—you’ll learn to share. Ohio’s most important lesson is to love unconditionally and I’m afraid I need