by Kylie Gellatly | Dec 31, 2021
What Happens is Neither Four Way Books Feb 15, 2021 As a poet of memory, you are a miner of the past and, in this book, your family’s past. What did you learn about yourself, as a daughter and as a poet, while writing these poems? Writing about the past can be...
by Kylie Gellatly | May 21, 2021
In Matt Miller’s fourth book, Tender the River (Texas A&M Press 2021), Miller shows us the grace of listening and how it can shape and change you, as a river does land. The collection is an homage to Miller’s hometown of Lowell, MA, following a narrative of its...
by Kylie Gellatly | Dec 24, 2019
Bianca Stone is one of the most exciting poets, visual artists, and advocates for poetry today. Her writing is essential to the Vermont poetry scene and the compassion she brings to it creates many opportunities for other poets. The Mobius Strip Club of Grief (Tin...
by Kylie Gellatly | Sep 6, 2019
Bad Harvest by Dzvinia Orlowsky Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2018. Bad Harvest is a resonant folk song that fills the chambers of the future with echoes of the past. Its complex twists of hereditary and personal relations with language and...
by Kylie Gellatly | Apr 18, 2019
The Popol Vuh by Michael Bazzett Milkweed, 2018. The Popol Vuh creation myth stems from the Mayan oral tradition, and was written down in the K’iche’ language between 1554 and 1558. With its roots in deeply communicative ritual, there is great...