by Caitlin Maling | May 16, 2013
Reading a recent review by Ange Mlinko’s for The Nation, I was made aware of the fact that the term anthology at root refers to a collection of flowers. Nowhere does this etymology seem more embodied than in the The Ecopoetry Anthology (Eds. Fisher-Wirth and...
by Will Donnelly | May 6, 2013
In May 2007, while Gregory Martin played with his two young sons in Albuquerque, his parents were having a fierce argument at their home in Spokane, Washington. When they stopped quarreling, Martin’s father went upstairs and swallowed a bottle of pills, landing...
by Lauren Hilger | Apr 26, 2013
Picking the shrapnel of a thought from the softness of an opened mind once the concussion has stilled into a barely ringing silence...
by Stephen Webber | Apr 19, 2013
The poems in Edward Mullany’s If I Falter at the Gallows are refreshing and brisk. SELF-PORTRAIT AS HIGH SCHOOL SOPHMORE ...
by Will Donnelly | Apr 11, 2013
In Knock Knock, Suzanne McNear tells the story of her own life, but she does so under the guise of March Rivers. This leaves the reader to guess at just how much of this story has been changed to protect those involved or even to enhance the events...
by Jeremy Bass | Apr 4, 2013
Poets have become so inventive at framing their work, it often seems as if a new book of poetry must have a gimmick of some kind in order to make itself heard. Book-length historical narratives. The re-interpretation of a comic strip. A book whose poems take...
