by Anita Olivia Koester | Oct 16, 2017
Marvels of the Invisible Universe by Jenny Molberg Tupelo Press. 2017. “I walked the tide’s edge / to hear the waves’ hushed dirge,” Jenny Molberg writes in her debut collection Marvels of the Invisible, and the reader walks beside her, line by line, listening to the...
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 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...
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 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...
