by Peter B. Hyland | Jan 8, 2013
Adam Clay’s second poetry collection is a solidly built book. If it were a house, you’d rush inside to wait out a hurricane. Organized into four sections gathered behind a preamble poem, “Scientific Method,” the collection displays an impressive structural integrity....
by Kay Cosgrove | Jan 1, 2013
Have you come around to listening to the sound of your own voice recorded: When messages repeat they delay their messages; when messages delete they’re afterwards fixed in time; how then the play commences. / /. . . / the future, alternately filled and emptied,...
by Marcus Pactor | Dec 19, 2012
Slavery in the South seems like an exhausted subject, but Laird Hunt’s Kind One feels fresh. In it, the sadistic Linus Lancaster tries to build Paradise out of dirt and pigs. After his wife Ginny murders him, their female slaves Zinnia and Cleome take over the farm,...
by The Editors | Jan 5, 2012
Our 2011 winter issue ran a little late this year, but the wait’s been worth it. Weighing in at nearly 300 pages, Volume 24, no. 2 of GMR features poetry by Todd Boss, Olena Kalytiak Davis, Stephen Dunn, Bob Hicok, Major Jackson, Carl Phillips, Katherine...