I Have Never Wanted Another Life, a book review by Candice Louisa Daquin I Have Never Wanted Another Life (Riot in Your Throat Press) a poetry collection by Frances Klein Frances Klein understands people and bad therapists, she understands platitudes and falseness and the horror of infertility. Klein’s book I have Never Wanted Another Life, is…
California Fever Dream, a book review by Candice Louisa Daquin California Fever Dream (Willow Books) a memoir by Dr. Judy Juanita In California Fever Dream, a memoir, Dr. Judy Juanita possesses a rarefied ability of a memoir writer to reach outside her own Black feminist experiences and touch on universal humanism without neglecting her original…
Poems from Raices, Relics, and Other Ghosts (Kelsey Books, 2024) To Heal Roots Light spills onto pale cobblestone pathsand small store fronts painted sea foam green, lilac, and salmon. Mangroves and las ceibas tangleover top merchant carts. The eroded brick of El Morro tells a story of times passed in waves.Stepping past the cracked walls…
Another Birth All my being is a verse of darknessthat will take you, repeating within itselfto the dawn of eternal blossoming and growthsin this verse, I sighed you forthin this verseI bound you to the tree, to the water, to the fire. Life, perhaps,is a long street where a woman holding a basket passes every…
The Unbearable Patience of Desire: On Mariano Zaro’s The Weight of Sound A book review by José Enrique Medina The Weight of Sound (Walton Well Press) a poetry collection by Mariano Zaro The Weight of Sound by Mariano Zaro does something most poetry collections only pretend todo: it holds still. And in that stillness, the…
Jack Foley in Conversation with Kalpna Singh-Chitnis Speech come to those who have no need for anything but air ~ Jack Foley Once, I asked Jack Foley how he would like the world to remember him. He replied: “As a good poet and as someone who changed people’s minds in certain respects. Someone who said…
April brings Poetry Month, and with it our Spring 2026 Edition. We extend our warm greetings to all our readers, writers, and the wider literary community. In this edition, we are proud to present a rich selection of features, including conversations, reviews, and poems that reflect diverse voices and experiences. We are also delighted to…
A poem by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis, translated from the original Hindi into Arabic by Mohammad Hlmi Rishah and into English by the author. The Day of Doom Let all the leaves in trees catch fire,Cities and villages drown in a deluge. Let all the continents melt awayOn the palms of our hands in no time at…
Editorial: Kalpna Singh-Chitnis April brings Poetry Month, and with it, we extend our warm greetings to all our readers, writers, and the wider literary community. We are pleased to share that Life and Legends is now a member of the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP). This marks an important step in our journey…
The Sky Will Hold : A book review by Candice Lousisa Daquin The Sky Will Hold (Riot in Your Throat Press, 2026), a poetry collection by Elizabeth Hazen Can a woman write simultaneously about the ashen beauty and breakage of living? In her opening poem Approximations, Elizabeth Hazen achieves this, with the lines: “I’ve had it…
Pasiphaë: A book review by Candice Louisa Daquin Pasiphaë (The Book Social) a novel by Jane Dougherty Myth retelling can go horribly wrong if handled improperly and become something of a marvel if the writer has a good historical background and unique slant on the myth, though it is always risky to reimagine something without…
One Thousand Origami Paper Cranes Fly Away: A book review by Candice Louisa Daquin One Thousand Origami Paper Cranes Fly Away (River Paw Press, 2025) a Chapbook by Martin Willitts Jr. The challenge for a manuscript to shine out from many submissions is seemingly impossible. How does one manuscript stand a chance against many other…
