Nina Bennett reviews Geraldine Connolly’s new collection, Aileron
Aileron Geraldine Connolly Terrapin Books, 2018 Upon seeing the title of Geraldine Connolly’s new collection, Aileron, I thought the book...
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James Bourey
- Sep 1, 2018
- 3 min
James Bourey reviews Patric Pepper's Everything Pure as Nothing
Everything Pure as Nothing Patric Pepper Finishing Line Press 2017, $14.99 Also Available from Amazon There’s a theme in this collection...
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Stephen Scott Whitaker
- Sep 1, 2018
- 8 min
A review of Walter Bargen's Too Quick for the Living
In his newest poetry collection Too Quick for the Living, Walter Bargen crafts poetry that looks into the jaws of American life, and...
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Stephen Scott Whitaker
- Sep 1, 2018
- 6 min
A review of Walter Bargen's Perishable Kingdoms, a chapbook of three tales
Walter Bargen’s chapbook of short stories, Perishable Kingdoms (El Grito Lobo Press) offers up tales of frontier madness and the kind of...
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Stephen Scott Whitaker
- Sep 1, 2018
- 7 min
A review of Nancy Mitchell's The Out of Body Shop
Nancy Mitchell’s The Out of Body Shop, from Mad Hat Press, creeps like fog, and is humid, fat, and hot. It’s dangerous, Mitchell’ s...
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Rachel Nix
- Sep 1, 2018
- 2 min
A review of giovanni singleton's American Letters
giovanni singleton American Letters Canarium Books, $14.00 In American Letters by giovanni singleton, readers take on an invitation to...
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Nina Bennett
- Jun 30, 2018
- 2 min
A review of Karen Paul Holmes' No Such Thing as Distance, Terrapin Books
Karen Paul Holmes No Such Thing as Distance Terrapin Books, $16 My interest was instantly captured by the riveting cover of Karen Paul...
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Nina Bennett
- Jun 30, 2018
- 2 min
A review of HA Maxson's A Commonplace Book
A Commonplace Book $9.95 H.A. Maxson Blast Press H.A. Maxson’s newest collection offers a unique take on a centuries-old process, that...
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James Bourey
- Jun 30, 2018
- 3 min
Review of Gary Beck's Expectations
Expectations By Gary Beck Wordcatcher Publishing 79 pages $10.99 The poetry in Expectations, a new collection from the prolific Gary...
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Stephen Scott Whitaker
- Jun 30, 2018
- 3 min
Review of The Acoustic Properties of Ancient People
Michael Tims collection, The Acoustic Properties of Ancient People, from Finishing Line Press, $19.99, is a keen study of the curious...
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James Bourey
- Jun 30, 2018
- 3 min
James Bourey reviews Martin Willitts The Uncertain Lover
The Uncertain Lover Martin Willitts Jr Dos Madres Press, $17.00 80 pages Available as ebook As a relatively new poetry book reviewer, I...
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Nina Bennett
- May 10, 2018
- 3 min
Nina Bennett reviews Travel Notes from the River Styx, from Terrapin Books
Susanna Lang Travel Notes from the River Styx, $16.99 Terrapin Books. I’m a sucker for titles. Susanna Lang’s newest collection, Travel...
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Nina Bennett
- May 10, 2018
- 2 min
Nina Bennett reviews Lisa Brognano's In the Interest of Faye
Lisa Brognano In the Interest of Faye, $8.99 Golden Antelope Press Lisa Brognano is good at description; the physical settings in In the...
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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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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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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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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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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
- 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
- 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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