Poetry. Winner of the 2017 Richard Snyder Prize in Poetry. "Poems by Michael Moos often occupy a liminal space at the edge of the garden about which he so often writes, that edge beyond which wildness begins, a wildness which Moos is not afraid to e...
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Poetry. Winner of the 2016 Richard Snyder Prize in Poetry, judged by Andrew Hudgins. "In 'Night Mowing,' Sutton says, 'I smell / like sweat and blood and metal,' and so do her piercing poems. All those disparate aspects of herself grieve for America...
Poetry. This collection of prose poetry was chosen by David St. John to win the 2015 Ashland Poetry Press Snyder Prize. Laura Kasischke says it is "poetry of both narrative and musical accomplishments," and Bob Hicock calls it "a diary of exquisite ...
Poetry. 2014 Snyder Prize winner. "THE GENOME RHAPSODIES opens with Gregor Mendel's question: 'What is inherited, and how?' Like strands of DNA, the syntax in these brilliant and moving poems intertwines with the infinitely recombinant moments and u...
Poetry. "Mark Irwin's poetry is astir with liquid light, light wind, leaves, blossoms, and the slight but weighty questions that anchor us in his trembling landscapes. 'Because every thought is either memory or desire, the world / pulls away on both...
Poetry. "'I think yes. I say no,' Laura Van Prooyen declares in this book of assertions and questions where danger lives at every turn—a child threatened by disease, a love passing through uncertainty, all the what ifs and keep at it of our days on ...
Poetry. Asian American Studies. "Perhaps we can never take adequate spiritual and moral measure of the first use of atomic weapons at the end of World War II, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't keep trying. J. David Cummings' TANCHO is a book of wha...
Poetry. "His lines are clouds of love, piercing the sky with enormous empathy, rolling in the azure, torrents of passion, and are arrows at the same time, reaching a peak where they break, crying, cleansing the air, becoming ether. It is impossible ...
Poetry. Praise for Hands of the Saddlemaker:"...[Samaras] is a stern and original poet, whose seriousness and morality seem almost foreign, like that of the Turkish writer Nazim Hikmet or Czeslaw Milosz or Pablo Neruda. His poetry combines social an...
Poetry. "Robin Davidson's work is deeply engendered, and she writes of ordinary women—rooted in earth, reaching for light—caught between personal, social, and historical forces. She is a learned poet—her work rings with the work of photographers, pa...
Poetry. "In his new collection, CONEY ISLAND PILGRIMS, John Hennessy does more than catalogue the things of this world; he sanctifies them: bruised strawberries, Kangols, an unleashed pit bull, Puccini's Suor Angelica, rainy afternoons, Big Bird. It...
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Poetry. "The poems in THE RATTLING WINDOW reveal an imagination caught up in the wondrous ordinariness of simply being, knowing how complicated in fact such simplicity is. Staples manages this magic by the quality of her attention, the articulate, l...
Poetry. "Gabriel Spera tiptoes a fine line, maintaining a balance between formalism and free verse, traditional tropes and verbal originality. When Spera casts his long, clause-riddled sentences into a formal structure, the result is often spectacul...
Poetry. "In Robert Grunst's poems the city's forgotten signs rise from memory into midday light. BLUE ORANGE conveys the luster of words, revealing both an older and brightened sense of the world. These poems are at once both shrewd and true."—Steph...
Poetry. "There is a quiet self-possession and maturity of vision in this volume that characterizes all of its poems; yet at the same time they range widely, addressing subjects as various as Neolithic customs, Whitman's career as a Civil War nurse, ...