Poetry Reviews
The Skin that Heats and Sparks: Anya Krugovoy Silver’s From Nothing
Review by Paige Sullivan // March 27, 2017Louisiana State University Press, September 2016Paperback, 80pp. $17.95 Though From Nothing, Anya Silver’s third collection of poetry, begins with
Impossible Questions: Leif Haven’s Arcane Rituals
Review by Justin Goodman // March 13, 20171913 Press, 2016Paperback, 100 pp. $15.00 Exhortations are poetic. Think Homer’s “Tell me, O Muse,” to Rilke’s “you
Justin Boening’s Not on the Last Day, But on the Very Last
Review by Emily Corwin // January 9, 2017Milkweed Editions, 2016Paperback, 61 pp. $16 Justin Boening’s Not on the Last Day, But on the Very Last is a
Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry
Review by Paige Sullivan // November 14, 2016University of South Carolina Press, April 2016Hardcover, 312pp. $49.99 Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry anthologizes contemporary Southern poetry filled
In the Room Made of Broken Mockingbirds: Ocean Vuong’s Night Sky with Exit Wounds
Review by Jeremy Michael Reed // September 19, 2016Copper Canyon Press, April 2016Paperback, 70 pp. $16 Ocean Vuong’s debut collection, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, has
Emily O’Neill’s Make a Fist & Tongue the Knuckles
Review by Emily Corwin // August 29, 2016Nostrovia Press, June 2016Paperback, 30 pp. $5.00 What I love and admire about O’Neill’s poems is where they
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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
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