by Rebecca Valley | May 18, 2020
Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod by Traci Brimhall Copper Canyon Press, 2020 “And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the Land of Nod. – Genesis 4:16” (35) In her latest collection, Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod, Traci...
by Margaret Pearcy Fleming | Apr 6, 2020
At the Kinnegad Home for the Bewildered by Jeffrey Levine Salmon Poetry, 2019 And all that night, throughout the world, a terrible noise of sheep / bleating and of bells from the church towers, of wooden houses cracking, / and the cries of...
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 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...
