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, each...
by Sarah Malone | Feb 10, 2016
A Kind of Compass: Stories on Distance, Belinda McKeon, ed. Tramp Press. 2015. Juxtaposition performs a sleight of hand. Presented with a collection of stories I might find the arrangement conducive to comparing them or I might not, but the possibility of not seeing...
by Ellen O'Connell | Feb 2, 2016
Bird by Noy Holland Counterpoint Press. 2015. At their best, books are not just books but experiences that summon us back into a distant memory of ourselves and our parents. Noy Holland has accomplished this with Bird, released in November by Counterpoint Press....
by Matthew Lippman | Jun 20, 2015
Ascent by Matt Bialer Bizarro Pulp Press. 2014. Sometimes you have to start at the beginning. To move up. To get lifted. To ascend. At the end of Matt Bialer’s epic poem, Ascent, there is a wedding, a Jewish wedding, the bride and groom lifted in chairs, the ancient...
