Poetry Reviews
Political Punch: Contemporary Poems on the Politics of Identity
Review by Ryo Yamaguchi // August 15, 2016Edited by Fox Frazier-Foley and Erin Elizabeth SmithSundress Press, March 2016Paperback, 236 pp, $20.00 When I finished reading Political
To Take Note of Where We Are: Adam Clay’s Stranger
Review by Jeremy Michael Reed // February 26, 2016Milkweed Editions, February 2016Paperback, 96pp. $16 Adam Clay’s third book, Stranger, examines the ways we can be estranged
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
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
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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
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