A Review of Megan Sexton’s SWIFT HOUR

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...

Review of Scarecrone by Melissa Broder

by Peter B. Hyland | May 26, 2016

I work on a university campus and sometimes get my lunch at one of several strip mall eateries at the outskirts. There’s a pizzeria, and I was having a slice as I began Melissa Broder’s third poetry collection, Scarecrone, taking in her preamble, “Dark Poem”: Today I...

A Review of James Davis May’s Unquiet Things

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...

Review of Allison Adelle Hedge Coke’s Streaming

by Jennifer Martelli | Apr 21, 2016

Streaming. by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke Coffee House Press. 2014.   In the prose poem, “We Were the World,” Allison Adelle Hedge Coke writes “…Some say the soup leftover was worded with decolonized language. Some say the taste lingers even now.” Certain things...