Poetry. "Jonathan Yungkans writes as if he were a John Ashbery clone who'd spent his youth in an L.A. punk band... Death looms largely over a fabricated landscape; past and present mingle uneasily; memory and dream provide a momentary 'shimmer.'"—Ga...
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Poetry. In PARIS, Richard Jones establishes himself as the flâneur, walking through the city and, in turn, his own life experiences. Although Jones places his poems against a storied and legendary backdrop, the poems themselves are deeply intimate a...
Poetry. "CALLING THROUGH WATER is the seasoned work of a multi-faceted, humane and gifted poet, endowed with refinement of intellect and an artist's eye that burnishes and transforms what it sees. In her brief for nature against the 'race to drain y...
Poetry. Women's Studies. "In the poems of THE MACON SEX SCHOOL, Marjorie Becker delivers a gendered syntax that arrives as desire and desire met, all in one gorgeous simultaneity. But resist the temptation to call these poems sly music; they do not ...
Poetry. A deep sense of humanity is at the core of Jack Rothman's poetry. His poems are easy to read, yet surprise you with their intensity as you find yourself looking at the world through his eyes. And what a complex world it is. "I wake immersed ...
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Poetry. "In THREE ON A WIRE, Thomas R. Thomas reminds us that the haiku remains a versatile poetic form, capable of providing a home for poems that are by turns intimate, lyrical, sensual, rustic, spiritual, and confessional. Thomas' work, which has...
Poetry. "The poet goes to war in Vietnam as a clarinetist in the Army band, and returns from hell to tell about it. It is vital that we read and hear Elijah Imlay—for our sense of history, for the truth of war, and for the 'solace in stories.'"—Maxi...
Poetry. "'I know the storm is coming when the hills are bathed,' writes Rachel Neve-Midbar. What is this knowledge? What does the poet have to tell us about the world that is around us? She learns by asking, by questioning this very need to ask: 'Wh...
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.
Poetry. A forensic elegy, SLIPPAGE excavates through the ruins of memory to parse each individual from the tragedy that, over time, comes to define him. "From the trees beside the lake by the woods in the mirror / Of a scalpel" Munde calls them up, ...
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...
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...