by Stephen Cramer | Sep 12, 2016
Shift by Marylen Grigas Nature’s Face Publications. 2016. One of the first poems in Marylen Grigas’ Shift, “About Muscle,” relates the life cycle of a sea squirt, a creature whose time on earth culminates when it comes to rest on a rock and devours its own...
by Natalie Mesnard | Aug 20, 2016
Desolation of Avenues Untold by Brandon Hobson Civil Coping Mechanisms. 2015. I’m probably not the intended audience for Desolation of Avenues Untold, by Brandon Hobson, though my experience of reading the book was singular. It’s a decidedly unusual work of fiction, a...
by Rose Whitmore | Jul 19, 2016
Dzanc Books. 263 pp. In the first chapters of her memoir, Origins of the Universe and What it all Means, Carole Firstman packs up her father’s old house. According to his specific instructions, she organizes boxes to send to him at his new home in Mexico, and while...
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 linguistic...
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...
