Beholding Hope: A review of Jeffrey Levine’s At the Kinnegad Home for the Bewildered

Poems in the Rooms of the Dying

    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...
Beholding Hope: A review of Jeffrey Levine’s At the Kinnegad Home for the Bewildered

Review of Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky

    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...