Poetry Reviews
The Cracks are How the Light Gets In: Amy Strauss Friedman’s The Eggshell Skull Rule
Review by Donna Vorreyer // June 22, 2018Kelsay Books, 2018Paperback, 78pp. $14.00 “For every//passageway leads to potential/and to poison. We drink//what we can, reaching and
Searching the Roots of Female Existence : Melissa Queen’s Girls Named for Flowers
Review by Jocelyn Heath // June 13, 2018dancing girl press, 2017Paperback, 32 pp. $7 We may never meet young women named Zephyranthes, Ipomoea, and Caladium in real life, but we do
Editor Recommends: An Everyday Practice of Starting Over in Stephanie McCarley Dugger’s Either Way, You’re Done
Review by Jeremy Michael Reed // February 23, 2018Sundress Publications, October 2017Paperback, 88 pp. $12.99 Former Grist poetry editor Stephanie McCarley Dugger’s first full-length collection of poems Either
“Henry Puts the Casual Back in Casualty”: Conor Bracken’s Henry Kissinger, Mon Amour
Review by Allison Pitinii Davis // December 4, 2017Bull City Press, 2017ISBN: 978-1-4951-5768-448 pp. / $12.00 In Henry Kissinger, Mon Amour (Bull City Press, 2017), winner of the 2017
Seeking Stars: Jordan Rice’s Constellarium
Review by Hannah Widdifield // August 7, 2017Orison BooksISBN 978-0-9906917-7-890 pp. / $16.00 In her debut collection of poetry, Jordan Rice guides readers through the
Mostly in Dreams: Chris Santiago’s Tula
Review by Tyler Burdwood // July 31, 2017Milkweed Press, December 2016Paperback, 100pp., $16 Chris Santiago’s first book of poetry, Tula from Milkweed Editions, opens with a definition. It
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Infinity Standing Up by Drew Pisarra
Reviewed by Michael Sutherlin // November 4, 2019Capturing Fire Press, 2019Paperback, 68 pp. $10 Drew Pisarra takes on the topic of the modern on-again off-again
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
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
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
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