MALIGNLY

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Around the corner at The Volta, a review of my chapbook Family Album, which was released late last year by Poor Claudia. There’s a circle of gratitude reserved for being read and being read sharply:

“Snapshot by snapshot (or poem by poem), Schoonebeek’s testimony of coming-of-age in an ‘American podunk’ wasteland forces its reader to consider how our identity is often malignly formed by those closest to us, and faces the measures one takes for personal redemption.”

Family Album is sold out, but almost all of those poems appear in American Barricade, which is still alive and stocked and kicking.