by Joe Sacksteder | Feb 14, 2018
Saul Stories by Elizabeth Ellen Short Flight/Long Drive, 2017. This is a tough book to review, because it takes a disparaging tone from the get-go towards the traditional ways people try to identify with narratives and interpret them. After...
by Jennifer Michael Hecht | Jan 26, 2018
Poems in the Manner of… By David Lehman Simon & Schuster, 2017. David Lehman’s new book, Poems in the Manner Of … is a waltz through the history of poetry and a self-portrait in the fun house mirrors of style. “In the manner of” here means...
by David Z. Drees | Nov 14, 2017
Vanishing Point: Poems By William Trowbridge Red Hen Press. 2017. From the Blakean embrace of the childhood imagination, to examining aging and death, to the profound undertone of uniting generations, William Trowbridge’s seventh collection, Vanishing Point,...
by James Hoch | Nov 5, 2017
Our Lands Are Not So Different by Michael Bazzett Horsethief Books. 2017. Lonesome Gnosis by Elizabeth Scanlon Horsethief Books. 2017. Who knows the life span of any given poetry press? Some start with fanfare and fizzle. Some limp into the world and build and stay...
by Tara Menon | Oct 26, 2017
Everybody’s Son by Thrity Umrigar. Harper Collins. 2017 Can we ever escape the consequences of an immoral action, even if we think some good will come out of it? Thrity Umrigar, a prominent Indian-American writer, a professor, a journalist, and a Nieman...
by Carly Fraysier | Sep 14, 2017
Hemming Flames by Patricia Colleen Murphy Utah State University Press. 2016. 80 pp. Patricia Colleen Murphy’s first collection, Hemming Flames, is an intricate and intimate portrait of family, struggle, grief, guilt, and moving through it all. It’s a book about...
