by Jaclyn Youhana Garver | Jul 29, 2021
God of Nothingness, by Mark WunderlichGraywolf Press, 2021 The experience of reading Mark Wunderlich’s fourth poetry book, God of Nothingness, mirrors the page-turning necessity and immediacy of a can’t-put-it-down novel: We must learn what happens next. This is due...
by Jari Chevalier | Jul 23, 2021
American Wakeby Kerrin McCaddenBlack Sparrow Press, 2021 From its epigraph to its final line, award-winning poet Kerrin McCadden’s exquisite third book, American Wake, is about going places. In its energetic momentum, we encounter who moves on and who and what is left...
by Shannon Nakai | May 28, 2021
The Earliest Witnessesby G.C. WaldrepTulepo Press, 2021 Hailed by his contemporaries as a visionary poet, G.C. Waldrep aptly presents an intimate study of the literal, physical, and spiritual act and implications of seeing. His seventh book, The Earliest Witnesses...
by Catherine Imbriglio | May 27, 2021
The Pactby Jennifer MilitelloTupelo Press, 2021 If you are someone like me who usually – but not always – closes her correspondence to friends and family with the word “love,” Jennifer Militello’s “The Pact” (Tupelo Press) might make you want to think...
by David Cavanagh | Mar 6, 2021
No More Timeby Greg DelantyLSU Press, 2020
by Michael Quinn | Jan 31, 2021
One Illuminated Letter of Beingby Donald PlattRed Mountain Press, 2020 One Illuminated Letter of Being, Donald Platt’s new collection of thirty-two heart-wrenching poems, is oriented around the loss of his mother—itself a disorienting experience, for anyone—that...