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 Frances Cannon | Jun 19, 2019
Dolefully, A Rampart Stands by Paige Ackerson-Kiely Penguin, 2019.
by Jari Chevalier | May 13, 2019
Fragments: From the Lost Book of the Bird Spirit by Karla Van Vliet Folded World, 2018. Karla Van Vliet’s lyrical imagination has unearthed for us a tender relic, Fragments: From the Lost Book of the Bird Spirit, her third collection....
by Christine Gelineau | Apr 19, 2019
How It Is: Selected Poems by Neil Shepard Salmon Poetry, 2018. Neil Shepard’s How It Is: Selected Poems gathers the greatest hits from six full-length collections by a poet who is both planted and peripatetic. Founder and helmsman for some...
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...
by Amy Beeder | Apr 17, 2019
The Out-of-Body-Shop by Nancy Mitchell Mad Hat Press, 2018. Michell’s latest collection, The Out of Body Shop, is taut, haunted and emotionally demanding; her poems are archeological exercises: unearthing the past and spreading it in the sun to “burn/off the...
