Fludde by Peter Mishler
Reviewed by Joseph LaBine // August 30, 2019 I first read Peter Mishler’s book of poetry, Fludde, in manuscript in 2015, and it called up my small secret memories: cubby holes at school, the feeling of a field under foot, the smell of well water, the length of a certain flight of stairs, a flood of […]
Editor Recommends: Umansky, Mountain & Miller
Review by Jeremy Michael Reed // August 14, 2019The Barbarous Century by Leah UmanskyEyewear Publishing, March 2018 // 106 pages, £10.99High Ground Coward by Alicia MountainUniversity of Iowa Press, April 2018 // 112 pages, $19.95Ceremonial by Carly Joy MillerOrison Books, May 2018 // 104 pages, $16.00 As 2019 began, I found myself looking to books from last year […]
Nineteen Letters by Kathleen McGookey
Reviewed by Natalie Tomlin // August 6, 2019Batcat Press, April 2019Hardcover, 45 pages, $24.00 With the publication of her latest chapbook, Nineteen Letters, Kathleen McGookey continues her playful and inventive interest in mortality, especially as it relates to the experience of parenting. This collection of epistolary prose poems addressed to death is an expansion on several poems […]