Between Human and Animal: The True Book of Animal Homes by Allison Titus

by Anita Olivia Koester | Jul 19, 2018

  The True Book of Animal Homes by Allison Titus Saturnalia Books, 2017.   Jorges Luis Borges’ short essay, the title of which translates as “The Analytical Language of John Wilkins,” insists on the inability to ever be able to classify the world, because such a...

Recasting the Sonnet: Review of Anna Maria Hong’s Age of Glass

by Anita Olivia Koester | May 18, 2018

Age of Glass by Anna Maria Hong Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2018 The sonnet is inexhaustible. Magnetic, mesmerizing, bewitching, nearly every poet is drawn to the form at some point in their career, whether they long to write the perfect sonnet, the...

After the Shipwreck: A Review of SIREN by Kateri Lanthier

by Anita Olivia Koester | Mar 26, 2018

Siren by Kateri Lanthier Signal Editions, 2017.     “I sing these songs all through the dark, after everyone’s left.” The myth of the sirens has been used throughout history, to shame women or empower them, but always to warn men—women too can be dangerous. Their...

The Heart’s Echo: A Review of Marvels of the Invisible by Jenny Molberg

by Anita Olivia Koester | Oct 16, 2017

Marvels of the Invisible Universe by Jenny Molberg Tupelo Press. 2017. “I walked the tide’s edge / to hear the waves’ hushed dirge,” Jenny Molberg writes in her debut collection Marvels of the Invisible, and the reader walks beside her, line by line, listening to the...