Rouse’s Reviews | A regular web column by Josh Rouse, who keeps his ear to the ground and his lens steady through life in T-Town Manhattan has Country Stampede, Kansas City has Kanrocksas and now North Topeka has its own music festival: In Session. The inaugural Christian music festival took place Saturday, Aug. 6, outside [...]

Looking over Monday morning’s paper about the tragic events in Reading, KS and Joplin, MO, I couldn’t help but think back to that day in June 1966, when a similar fate fell upon our fair city. I still remember the sirens blaring and my mom herding me into the neighbor’s basement. Living in Little Russia [...]

by Dennis Etzel, Jr. “What dark thing have you done to me?” becomes a mantra in Rachel Zucker’s poem “What Dark Thing.” As this experimental poem explores how women feel captured by both marketplace and cultural position, its disjointedness reflects this capture as damaging. In Museum of Accidents (Wave Books), Zucker writes her lyrical poems in [...]