by Anita Olivia Koester | Jul 19, 2018
The True Book of Animal Homes by Allison Titus Saturnalia Books, 2017. Jorges Luis Borges’ short essay, the title of which translates as “The Analytical Language of John Wilkins,” insists on the inability to ever be able to classify the world, because...
by Anita Olivia Koester | Mar 26, 2018
Siren by Kateri Lanthier Signal Editions, 2017. “I sing these songs all through the dark, after everyone’s left.” The myth of the sirens has been used throughout history, to shame women or empower them, but always to warn men—women too can be dangerous....
by David Z. Drees | Nov 14, 2017
Vanishing Point: Poems By William Trowbridge Red Hen Press. 2017. From the Blakean embrace of the childhood imagination, to examining aging and death, to the profound undertone of uniting generations, William Trowbridge’s seventh collection, Vanishing Point,...
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...
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...
