by Caitlin Thornbrugh | Jul 31, 2020
Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World by Kathryn Cowles Milkweed, 2020 Kathryn Cowles begins her poetry collection with an epigraph from John Berger, “The waters change all the while and stay the same only on the map.” She brings the reader to the earth,...
by Noah Davis | Jul 30, 2020
Crosscut by Sean Prentiss University of New Mexico Press, 2020 In a time when human communities have become more divorced than ever from the natural world, Sean Prentiss’ debut collection of poems, Crosscut, celebrates the binding and clarifying effects of...
by McKenzie Lynn Tozan | Jul 26, 2020
Louder Birds by Angela Voras-Hills LSU Press, 2020 From the first moment I stepped into Angela Voras-Hills’ collection, Louder Birds, I knew I was in the presence of something vital. The collection opens with the particularly captivating poem, “Retrospective,”...
by Hannah Cobb | Jun 27, 2020
As One Fire Consumes Another by John Sibley Williams Orison Books, 2019 It is 2020 and it seems that we all feel immersed in destruction. Destruction surrounds us and we struggle to understand our own complicity in it. This was true when John Sibley Willams’...
by Anne Graue | Jun 19, 2020
tether by Lisa Fay Coutley Black Lawrence Press, 2020 To be tethered to something can be a good thing, can feel safe and secure, can feel necessary. Right now, we are tethered to a situation, to our homes, to our work, to our families, to uncertainty. Even...