by Amanda Auerbach | Mar 9, 2020
All Transparent Things Need Thundershirts by Dana Roeser Two Sylvias Press, 2019. Dana Roeser’s All Transparent Things Need Thundershirts is a book of long, narrow poems that move lightly and deftly from one strand of experience to another, in the...
by Matt Geiger | Feb 6, 2020
Word Has It by Ruth Danon Nirala Publications, 2018 On the subject of serial killers, poet Ruth Danon writes that they “leave notes, write in code.” They “grow increasingly impatient.” “They hate the dark,” she muses. “They want to be found.” So...
by Eric Odynocki | Jan 24, 2020
the Internet is for real By Chris Campanioni C&R Press, 2019. In a time of deepfakes and alternative facts, we often ask ourselves what is real anymore, how can we trust our own eyes? Chris Campanioni chimes in on our collective existential...
by Michael Quinn | Jan 15, 2020
The Miracles by Amy Lemmon C&R Press, 2019. Amy Lemmon’s book of poems, The Miracles, is a meditation on life after loss, and its themes are motherhood, love, and aging. Lemmon writes, “The structure of the book was inspired by Leonard...
by Risa Denenberg | Dec 4, 2019
The Fire Lit & Nearing by J.G. McClure Indolent Books, 2018. ...
by Tom Griffen | Nov 18, 2019
Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky Graywolf Press, 2019. Ilya Kaminsky’s second poetry collection, Deaf Republic, is an exhilarating and anguished poetic narrative. Sixty poems tell the story of an unspecified event wherein, “SOLDIERS—arrive in...
