Poetry Reviews
Soulmate As a Verb by Kelsey L. Smoot
Reviewed by Bess Cooley | Mar 28, 2026 Dopamine Books, February 2026 Paperback, 120 pages, $16.95 I had the pleasure of hearing Kelsey L. Smoot
Florence by Bess Cooley
What Remains: Memory and Erasure in Bess Cooley’s Florence Reviewed by Dr. Kelsey L. SmootSundress Publications, October 15th, 2024Paperback, 78 pages, $16 Everything in Bess
god mornings, tiger nights by Nuha Fariha
Reviewed by Shlagha Borah | December 7, 2023Game Over Books, 2023Paperback, $18 “I traveled light like all daughters, carrying only my weight out of the
of being neighbors by Daniel Biegelson
Reviewed by Alison Hramiak | September 16, 2022Ricochet Editions, 2021Small Press Distribution, $15 At first glance of being neighbors looks like a book that concentrates
Scale Model of a Country at Dawn by John Sibley Williams
Reviewed by Alison Hramiak | September 2, 2022Cider Press Review, 2022Paperback, 85 pp. $18.95 A Scale Model of a Country at Dawn by John Sibley
The Tillable Land by Melva Sue Priddy
Reviewed by Andrew Lee Butler | July 16, 2022Shadelandhouse Modern Press, 2022Paperback, 91 pp. $17.00 There is a line in The Tillable Land—a simple, straightforward
One Person Holds So Much Silence by David Greenspan
Reviewed by María Castro Dominguez | April 19, 2022Driftwood Press, 2022Paperback, 80 pages, $14.99 One Person Holds So Much Silence is an eye-ear-mind-kicking collection of
What Pecan Light by Hannah VanderHart
Reviewed by Christian J. Collier and Kasey Jueds | April 14, 2022Bull City Press, 2021Paperback, 68 pages, $18.95 KJ: Christian, I’m so happy to be
An Interview with Leah Silvieus | by Hope Fischbach
Leah Silvieus is the author of three poetry collections, most recently, Arabilis (Sundress Publications 2019), and is the co-editor with Lee Herrick of The World I Leave You: An Anthology of Asian American Poets on Faith and Spirit (Orison Books 2020). She is a Kundiman fellow, holds degrees from Whitworth University and the University of Miami, and is currently studying literature and religion at Yale Divinity School.
Dead Uncles by Ben Kline
Reviewed by Laura Rashley | October 26, 2021Driftwood Press, 2021Paperback, 37 pages, $7.99 In Ben Kline’s latest poetry chapbook, Dead Uncles: Poems, Folklore, Reverie, we’re
Kind by Gretchen Primack
Reviewed by Chloë Hanson | September 27, 2021Lantern Press, 2021Hardcover, 98 pages, $15.00 I first encountered Gretchen Primack’s work a few years ago, when a
There Is No Good Time for Bad News by Aruni Kashyap
Reviewed by Maggie Rue Hess | August 31, 2021Future Cycle Press, April 2021Paperback, 58 pages, $15.95 Reminding us that to turn your eyes away from
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