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    James Bourey
    • May 1, 2018
    • 2 min

    A review of "All the Echoes" by Timothy Strong

    Sometimes we come across a book of poetry that is far outside standard norms or forms, such as Timothy Strong's All the Echoes (Boneworld...
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    A review of "The Third Voice: Notes on the Art of Poetic Collaboration" by Eric Greinke
    James Bourey
    • May 1, 2018
    • 3 min

    A review of "The Third Voice: Notes on the Art of Poetic Collaboration" by Eric Greinke

    The Third Voice: Notes on the Art of Poetic Collaboration By Eric Greinke Presa Press, Rockford Michigan 84 pages Poetry can be, in many...
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    A review of Christine Stoddard's Harlem Mestiza
    Nina Bennett
    • May 1, 2018
    • 1 min

    A review of Christine Stoddard's Harlem Mestiza

    Christine Stoddard’s chapbook has a striking cover, with the title in large block letters that appear to be cut out of fabric, like quilt...
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    Poems that Confide, Poems that Shimmer. 
Review of Bound Stone and Bearing Witness
    Naomi Thiers
    • May 1, 2018
    • 5 min

    Poems that Confide, Poems that Shimmer. Review of Bound Stone and Bearing Witness

    Colleen Anderson, Bound Stone, Finishing Line Press, 2016, 23 pages, paper. Claudia Van Gerven, Bearing Witness, Finishing Line Press,...
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    Review of Grant Clauser's Reckless Constellations
    Stephen Scott Whitaker
    • May 1, 2018
    • 5 min

    Review of Grant Clauser's Reckless Constellations

    Grant Clauser’s Reckless Constellations (Cider Press, $17.95), one of two new Clauser collections mind you, resonates with a kind of...
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    Grant Clauser reviews Sean Thomas Dougherty's The Second O of Sorrow
    Grant Clauser
    • Apr 19, 2018
    • 4 min

    Grant Clauser reviews Sean Thomas Dougherty's The Second O of Sorrow

    “Nothing that is whole is art.” writes Sean Thomas Dougherty in a poem toward the end of his 15th book, The Second O of Sorrow (BOA)....
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    James Bourey reviews Kendall A. Bell's We Are All Ghosts
    James Bourey
    • Feb 28, 2018
    • 2 min

    James Bourey reviews Kendall A. Bell's We Are All Ghosts

    We Are All Ghosts (Maverick Duck Press) Poems by Kendall A. Bell Some folks like their poetry straightforward, in plain language,...
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    Nina Bennett reviews Hayden Saunier's How to Wear this Body
    Nina Bennett
    • Feb 27, 2018
    • 2 min

    Nina Bennett reviews Hayden Saunier's How to Wear this Body

    How to Wear This Body Hayden Saunier Terrapin Books, 2017 The striking cover of Hayden Saunier’s collection, How to Wear This Body,...
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    Steven Leech
    • Feb 27, 2018
    • 8 min

    Romance and turmoil: Two Novels by 19th Century Author Harriett Pennawell Belt

    Had it not been for a mention in the Delaware, A Guide to the First State published in 1938 by the Federal Writers’ Project of the Works...
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    Grace Cavalieri's collected works is elegant and necessary
    Stephen Scott Whitaker
    • Jan 5, 2018
    • 5 min

    Grace Cavalieri's collected works is elegant and necessary

    “The past is never dead. It's not even past.” Faulkner’s oft quoted line is apt when picking up Grace Cavalieri’s selected works, Other...
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    Review of You're Not Dead Til I Say You're Dead
    Nina Bennett
    • Jan 1, 2018
    • 2 min

    Review of You're Not Dead Til I Say You're Dead

    You’re Not Dead Til I Say You’re Dead By Joyce Victor, PhD, RN Northampton House Press 2018 Joyce Victor weaves her professional...
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    Stephen Scott Whitaker
    • Jan 1, 2018
    • 4 min

    Joan Colby's new collection celebrates women, and the human spirit

    Joan Colby Her Heartsongs, Pressa Press, $13.95. In the wake of the most emotionally wrenching election in the history of the country,...
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    Art and the Zen of Motorcycle Poetry, a review
    Jamie Brown
    • Oct 31, 2017
    • 2 min

    Art and the Zen of Motorcycle Poetry, a review

    In Just Passing Through (Paycock Press, paper) M. Scott Douglass has elevated the two-stroke engine to the sublime. Here we do not need...
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    Towards Avalon:  Route 66 And Its Sorrows, reviewed by Nina Bennett
    Nina Bennett
    • Oct 31, 2017
    • 3 min

    Towards Avalon: Route 66 And Its Sorrows, reviewed by Nina Bennett

    Route 66 And Its Sorrows Carolyn Miller Terrapin Books, 2017 Carolyn Miller is a master at capturing a moment, a feeling, a remembrance,...
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    "You are now entering...The Night Bazaar..." A review
    Jim Bourey
    • Oct 31, 2017
    • 3 min

    "You are now entering...The Night Bazaar..." A review

    The Night Bazaar: Eleven Haunting Tales of Forbidden Wishes and Dangerous Desires Edited by Lenore Hart Northampton House Press ISBN:...
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    Dr. Sleep, a review of fiction editor HA Maxson's new collection of poetry
    Stephen Scott Whitaker
    • Oct 31, 2017
    • 4 min

    Dr. Sleep, a review of fiction editor HA Maxson's new collection of poetry

    When you hear HA Maxson read live, his steady command of the breath pulls the subtle music of his often quotidian poetry; he is like a...
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    Claudia Roth Pierpont’s Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books
    Jamie Brown
    • Sep 1, 2017
    • 2 min

    Claudia Roth Pierpont’s Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books

    As anyone who has ever taught freshman composition for any length of time can tell you, there is always one bright-eyed, eager young...
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    Review: “Surf Noir” Relentless Waves of Image and Sound
    Jim Bourey
    • Sep 1, 2017
    • 3 min

    Review: “Surf Noir” Relentless Waves of Image and Sound

    Pacific Standard Time: New & Selected Poems By Kevin Opstedal, Ugly Duckling Presse, 216 pp, 2016 Introductions in poetry collections are...
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    Review: Ramsey Scott wants to get stoned
    Stephen Scott Whitaker
    • Sep 1, 2017
    • 5 min

    Review: Ramsey Scott wants to get stoned

    Ramsey Scott’s debut book of essays The Narco-Imaginary: Essays Under the Influence, from Ugly Duckling Presse, $14, is a complicated,...
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    A review of Cutting Room from Terrapin Books.
    Nina Bennett
    • Sep 1, 2017
    • 3 min

    A review of Cutting Room from Terrapin Books.

    Disclaimer: I requested and received a review copy of Cutting Room from Terrapin Books. Jessica de Koninck’s, debut collection,Cutting...
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