High-Beams
Welcome to High-Beams, our space for regular feature writing, criticism, interviews, and book reviews. For contribution inquiries, please contact our editorial director Kurt Milberger (kmilberg@kennesaw.edu).
Interviews
Mona Susan Power in Conversation with Miriam Brown Spiers
Good Mother Lizard: An Interview with Lisa Alletson (video)
The Woman is OK in the End: An Interview with Gwen Kirby
Book Reviews
Mountain Madness
Mountain Madness by Clinton Crockett Peters is a collection of essays detailing the author’s hiking treks in both Japan, during his tenure as a twenty-something English teacher, and in the United States during his time as an outdoor guide. His essays weave together both the physical details of his outdoor adventures and the emotional reflections and meanings of these experiences more than a decade later.
A Body of Water
THR Poetry Editor Tyra Douyon reports on Chioma Urama’s epic collection in this poetic and historical exploration of dispossession and kinship—“because nothing, like the memory of water, is ever lost.”
Southbound
Kaylee Westra’s take on Anjali Enjeti’s new essay collection.