by Jeneva Stone | Aug 26, 2020
My Afmericaby Artress Bethany WhiteTrio House Press, 2019 In her second collection, My Afmerica, Artress Bethany White grapples with the grief of generations of Black mothers in America. Her title reflects the reality that black skin, for many whites, is an unwelcome...
by Stephanie Burt | Aug 25, 2020
Insecurity Systemby Sara WainscottPersea Books, 2020 Ever read a crown of sonnets and wish you could read another one, and then more? Me neither, until the winningly, teasingly, loosely, expertly assembled array of fourteen-line items that comprise Sara Wainscott’s...
by Caitlin Thornbrugh | Jul 31, 2020
Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World by Kathryn Cowles Milkweed, 2020 Kathryn Cowles begins her poetry collection with an epigraph from John Berger, “The waters change all the while and stay the same only on the map.” She brings the reader to the earth,...
by Noah Davis | Jul 30, 2020
Crosscut by Sean Prentiss University of New Mexico Press, 2020 In a time when human communities have become more divorced than ever from the natural world, Sean Prentiss’ debut collection of poems, Crosscut, celebrates the binding and clarifying effects of...
