Heartbreak, Uncertainty, and Healing

Heartbreak, Uncertainty, and Healing

These Few Seeds by Meghan SterlingTerrapin Books, 2021. “Maybe in death we become a collage / of what we have most longed for— / finally you are roots, seeds, earth…” This line from “Memorial at a Japanese Lilac” in Meghan Sterling’s poetry collection, These Few...
Book Release: Anne Graue

Book Release: Anne Graue

Congratulations to GMR contributor Anne Graue whose new poetry Full and Plum-Colored Velvet  was published in late 2020 by Woodsley Press. Anne Graue is the author of Full and Plum-Colored Velvet, (Woodley Press, 2020) and Fig Tree in Winter (Dancing Girl Press,...
The Thing Itself: A Review

The Thing Itself: A Review

  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...