The Words Will Keep Us Connected to Each Other: A Review of Grace Bauer’s Nowhere All At Once
Review by Darius Stewart // February 26, 2015 What is it about Grace Bauer that compels us so much to her work? How many lines defining poetry does she write that enable us to identify our own lives so viscerally because her words, with enormous empathy, eventually translate into poems of sympathy? It’s as if […]
Our Lives Happen Between the Memorable: A Review of Dexter L. Booth’s Scratching the Ghost
Review by Darius Stewart // January 13, 2015 Too often I’ve been asked, “what exactly is poetry?” The people who ask this question tend to be intelligent professionals—which bewilders me—and some of them, understandably, ask because they are so young; they ask because they haven’t (yet) been exposed to poetry in their compulsory curricula—at least not enough—and […]