Poetry Reviews
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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
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
Voice, Body, Form, Line: Brenna Womer’s Atypical Cells of Undetermined Significance
Review by Shane Stricker // December 27, 2018 C&R Press$10.00, pp. 54 Brenna Womer’s Atypical Cells of Undetermined Significance (C&R Press, 2017) unfurls like a person aging, unfolding, unraveling, becoming itself. It is
Girl, Deconstructed: Erin Hoover’s Barnburner
Review by Stephanie Walls // October 9, 2018Elixir Press, 2018$17.00 Erin Hoover fearlessly explores and reports on the experiences of a young Millennial woman entering
The Wolf at the Door: Darren Demaree’s Two Towns Over
Review by Donna Vorreyer // July 31, 2018 Trio House Press, 2018Paperback, 84 pp, $16 Meet the wolf. Seductive. Dangerous. In Darren Demaree’s Two Towns Over,
A Conversation of Selves: Canese Jarboe’s dark acre
Review by Emily Corwin // July 13, 2018Willow Springs BooksACME Poetry Series, 2018 Neosporin Pussy Queen, Rodeo Queen, Rapunzel, figurine, showgirl, apex predator, a midnight
GRIST POETRY REVIEWS
My Name Is Romero by David A. Romero
Reviewed by Maggie Rue Hess | March 23, 2021Flowersong Press, 2020Paperback, 109 pages, $20 There are many occasions that prompt us to introduce ourselves: over
Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing by Julie Marie Wade
Reviewed by Emily Jalloul // March 17, 2020Mad Creek Books, 2020Paperback, 208 pages, $18.95 “Just An Ordinary Woman Breathing” is Julie Marie Wade’s eleventh book.
Skin Memory by John Sibley Williams
Reviewed by Rachel Harper // March 6, 2020The Backwaters Press, 2020Paperback, 84 pp. $15.95 Loss, the pain that accompanies such an experience, and the process
The Many Names for Mother by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
Reviewed by Emily Bradley // December 2, 2019The Kent State University Press, 2019Paperback, 98 pages Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach’s The Many Names for Mother is a collection of
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