Magazine. Poetry. Reviews. Issue 27 features poems by James Ragan, Jennifer Sweeney, David St. John, Kwame Dawes, and many others. Reviews by Lynne Thompson and Candice Pearson, and Angie Vorhies.
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Poetry. "I don't remember when I wrote my first poem. I remember as a child I read voraciously everything I could get my hands on: Dickinson, Frost, Hawthorne, Shakespeare, Bacon and so many more. As a mountain-bound child reading was my only escape...
Poetry. Winner of the 2017 Clockwise Chapbook Competition. "Welcome a bright new poet to the world! Jennifer Saunders romances the uncanny as she unveils the pleasures and the restlessness of that sometimes nesting bird—the housewife. Too often torn...
Poetry. "In language luminous and true, with grace, good humor, generosity, and affectionate attention, Robin Chapman unflinchingly faces the local and global, even galactic disasters, that daily assail us. Casting a sober eye on the ills of our soc...
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Poetry. Women's Studies. Judith Pacht's subject is desire. Her poems act on it at every turn, advancing against caution, sending out lines of inquiry that shade and displace and subvert each other with urgency, in language that is precise without ev...
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Environmental Studies. SPARE ROOM: HAIBUN VARIATIONS is Jim Natal's second volume of poems written in the Japanese haibun form, a dialogue between crafted prose and haiku-like poetry that dates back to Japanes...
Poetry. "These poems aren't so much written as excavated, pulled from the deep ground of human grief, followed by the reclamation of a self who has unearthed every shard. Holaday Mason's language is stunning—it matches the hot pulse of her imagery; ...
Poetry. "Sometimes surreal, always evocative, Judith Skillman's poems seem to well up from an inner hot spring. This collection is the latest in a lengthy and rich body of work. Not merely a keen observer, Skillman interprets for us the world around...
Poetry. "DRIFTING is more essential than a book. As sure as you and I eat and breathe and die, the folk in these pages are out there, beyond the trees, heedless and hurt and in love. You won't read DRIFTING so much as live through it. I'm certain."—...
Poetry. "There is great wit and a sly, honed gravitas in these poems. Florence Weinberger wrestles the ineluctable irony at work in every aspect of our lives, and wins; each poem provides a practical wisdom, and her range is amazing, from Opera, phi...
Magazine. Poetry. Reviews. SPILLWAY 26 is the first with editors Marsha de la O and Phil Taggart. This volume includes an interview with Patricia Smith; and features poetry by Mariano Zaro, Kim Young, Angel Garcia, Saddiq Dzukogi, Vickie Vertiz, Hol...
Poetry. "Donna Hilbert's poems are brave, unsparing and heartfelt revealing a woman's life in a way that is universal. Her voice is confident and dodges nothing. Her poems don't waste a word. One wants to say 'Yes.' One wants to say 'Sister.'"—Joan ...
Poetry. "Gayle Kaune's third book, NOISE FROM STARS, is a collection of lyric poems, rich in sense of place, surprise, and imagination. Kaune's mind takes quick leaps, sometimes shifting point of view, making her story rich and complex, while motifs...
Poetry. "In Ezra Dan Feldman's luminously postmodern HABITAT OF STONES, 'omens are aerial,' clouds thicken — in a deliciously precise observation — 'like marble cake,' and 'the arrogant man' (having 'mistaken a bathtub for a grave') discovers that l...
Poetry. The New World Translation Series Number 5. Translated by Jon Davis and Christopher Merrill. "The Iraq that appears in DAYPLACES is a literary construct as well as a political and historical fact. It is as if Naseer Hassan has recreated Iraq—...