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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Jamie Brown
- Sep 1, 2017
- 4 min
So much more than just incidental discovery: a review of The Hemingway Files
The Hemingway Files, H.K. Bush’s first novel, (Blank Slate Press, St. Louis, MO. ISBN 978-1-943075-32-4, paper $15.95) is a fascinating...
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Jim Bourey
- Jul 1, 2017
- 3 min
A review of John Elsberg's poetry collection, Not Quite Ocean
John Elsberg (August 4, 1945 – July 28, 2012) was a longtime advocate of literature in the Chesapeake Bay region. He was a noted author,...
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Jim Bourey
- Jul 1, 2017
- 3 min
A review of G.L.Ford's poetry collection, Sans
If we judge this little volume, Sans, by G.L. Ford, from Ugly Duckling Presse, $14, by its cover, a simple white on white sideways...
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