by Scott Hightower | Jun 8, 2016
SWIFT HOUR by Megan Sexton Mercer University Press. 2014. Not every reader of poetry is looking for the next big manifesto of political survival and over-determination; the poem that vanquishes other new books of poetry and inaugurates a new age of...
by Kali Lightfoot | May 4, 2016
Unquiet Things by James Davis May Goat Island Poets, Series Editor: Claudia Emerson Louisiana University Press, 2016 Unquiet Things is the debut collection by James Davis May, a poet with prodigious powers of observation and description. May makes metaphors and...
by Sean Prentiss | Apr 18, 2016
Michigan State University Press. 2016. 114 pp. In 2012, I moved to Vermont. Before making a home in Vermont, I had spent a decade either living full time or summering in the mountains of Colorado. During my time in the Saguache Mountains, I learned the deciduous...
by Andrew Merton | Apr 13, 2016
Bona Fide Press. 2015. 88 pp. The final line of Julia Shipley’s bio in her magical book of poems, The Academy of Hay, reads, “She is married to one man and six acres in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom.” In several of these poems, man and acreage seem to merge in often...
by Julia Leverone | Apr 8, 2016
Along the Iditarod trail, wolf pups steal wooden posts that were planted there to mark the way through the abrupt immenseness of Alaska. The posts become playthings; or they always already were toys to the pups, there for the taking. So Simone Muench approaches her...
by David Z. Drees | Mar 29, 2016
A Boy’s Book of Nervous Breakdowns: Stories by Tom Paine Louisiana State University Press, 2015. Published in 2015 by Louisiana State University Press, Tom Paine’s third book, A Boy’s Book of Nervous Breakdowns: Stories, is a collection of nine short stories,...
