dan raphael, Staff Reviewer

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dan raphael's 26th book of poetry, Out in the Wordshed, is scheduled to come out this fall from Last Word Press. He is the author of Manything, an Unlikely Book. Other recent poems appear in Synchronized Chaos, Pangolin, Rasputin and Otoliths.

dan raphael reviews books and other material for Unlikely Stories Mark V. If you'd like to have your book reviewed, drop him a line at dan AT unlikelystories DOT org. Please read the guidelines before submitting.

Recent Articles:

"Marine Park," "Lucius," and "Pig Man" by John Grey

With a Cat at the End of Time by Chris Klassen

Four Visual Poems, December 2023 by David E. Matthews

"He Buys a Revolver," "This Isn't a Poem About Late Blooming," and "The Cruise" by Wendy Taylor Carlisle

Doxed by Jon Wesick

"Dear Doctor," and "Marilyn Monroe Looks Back" by Oak Morse

When Hope Is Lost by John Ganshaw

"The Ex-Wife," "The Real Barfly," and "The Price" by Brenton Booth

"On the Surface," "As Well," and "Primitive" by Ivan Peledov

Metanoia by Vipanjeet Kaur and Jerome Berglund

"Keister It" and "Work Environment" by Jerome Berglund

Detecting Inspiration a past episode of A Sardine on Vacation

Success as Failure a past episode of A Sardine on Vacation

Double Vision a past episode of A Sardine on Vacation

"True History," "Electro Lux Imbroglio," and "Parable of Fire" by Howie Good

"The Waterboard," "Ten of Wands," and "Alibi" by Martha Zweig

"The Meritocratic Oath," "The Likelihood of Unseasonable Snow," and "70mm" by Oz Hardwick

Bad Actors by Dinah Cox

Saeadani! by Dominic Rivron

Fortgang Communicates with a Molecule by Peter Cherches

Reading Two Poets I’ve Done Readings With by dan raphael

"On Good Friday 2023," "As Loneliness Spreads Like the Wildfires, I Wonder" and "An Abecedarian on the Iraq Invasion / Twenty Years Later, What Have We Learned" by Jen Schneider

Steps in the Carceral by Nova Warner

"glue stick goes north," "jerrycan exxonic," "one baby & baby," and "mortgage (dead pledge)" by J. D. Nelson

"Falsified Integers Maintaining Distance," "Noble Realizations as Calm as Canyon Newspaper," and "prized and obscured" by Joshua Martin

Unlikely Saints, September 2023 with Rodger Kamenetz, Wendy Taylor Carlisle, Justin Lacour, and Ashton Young

Redneck Riviera by Sterling Warner

Ancient Gods by Scot Walker

The Isolated Cemetery by Anthony David Vernon

The Mythos of Obscurity, DXXX – DXL by Ryan David Undeen

Enough by Taylor Thomas

Functional by Karlo Sevilla

Room to Live by Thaddeus Rutkowski

Berlin, 1992 by Michael Ruby

Your “Florida Sucks” Memes Probably Suck by Gabriel Ricard

Red by Lisa Pasold

A Series of Socially-Conscious Limericks by Gregg Maxwell Parker

Uncatchable by Clara Pasian

Piss Halo by Roland Orcsik, trans. by Gabor G. Gyukics

Power, as if It Were a Thing by M.W. Miller