Lisa Brognano In the Interest of Faye, $8.99 Golden Antelope Press Lisa Brognano is good at description; the physical settings in In the...

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...

The Third Voice: Notes on the Art of Poetic Collaboration By Eric Greinke Presa Press, Rockford Michigan 84 pages Poetry can be, in many...

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...

Colleen Anderson, Bound Stone, Finishing Line Press, 2016, 23 pages, paper. Claudia Van Gerven, Bearing Witness, Finishing Line Press,...

Grant Clauser’s Reckless Constellations (Cider Press, $17.95), one of two new Clauser collections mind you, resonates with a kind of...

“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)....

We Are All Ghosts (Maverick Duck Press) Poems by Kendall A. Bell Some folks like their poetry straightforward, in plain language,...

How to Wear This Body Hayden Saunier Terrapin Books, 2017 The striking cover of Hayden Saunier’s collection, How to Wear This Body,...

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...

“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...

You’re Not Dead Til I Say You’re Dead By Joyce Victor, PhD, RN Northampton House Press 2018 Joyce Victor weaves her professional...

Joan Colby Her Heartsongs, Pressa Press, $13.95. In the wake of the most emotionally wrenching election in the history of the country,...

In Just Passing Through (Paycock Press, paper) M. Scott Douglass has elevated the two-stroke engine to the sublime. Here we do not need...

Route 66 And Its Sorrows Carolyn Miller Terrapin Books, 2017 Carolyn Miller is a master at capturing a moment, a feeling, a remembrance,...

The Night Bazaar: Eleven Haunting Tales of Forbidden Wishes and Dangerous Desires Edited by Lenore Hart Northampton House Press ISBN:...

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...

As anyone who has ever taught freshman composition for any length of time can tell you, there is always one bright-eyed, eager young...

Pacific Standard Time: New & Selected Poems By Kevin Opstedal, Ugly Duckling Presse, 216 pp, 2016 Introductions in poetry collections are...

Ramsey Scott’s debut book of essays The Narco-Imaginary: Essays Under the Influence, from Ugly Duckling Presse, $14, is a complicated,...