by Jacob Rivers | May 28, 2020
Keep This To Yourself by Kerrin McCadden Button Poetry, 2020 “I search Craiglist for sadness: a white couch the only result,” begins “Weeks After My Brother Overdoses,” the final poem in Kerrin McCadden’s chapbook, Keep This to Yourself (Button Poetry 2020)....
by Sarah Audsley | May 26, 2020
Books in Conversation Bodega by Su Hwang (Milkweek, 2019) and Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong (One World, 2020) To read Bodega by Su Hwang is to immerse oneself in a world, but to read this debut poetry collection in tandem with Minor...
by Edward Sambrano III | May 23, 2020
My Second Work by Bridget Lowe Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2020 To read a Bridget Lowe poem is to observe a gradual transformation, a transmutation of the ordinary into progressively more extraordinary metaphysical states. Anyone who read Lowe’s first book At...
by Rebecca Valley | May 18, 2020
Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod by Traci Brimhall Copper Canyon Press, 2020 “And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the Land of Nod. – Genesis 4:16” (35) In her latest collection, Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod, Traci...
by Katie Heacock | May 7, 2020
Great American Desert By Terese Svoboda Ohio State Press, 2019 Terese Svoboda opens her 18th book Great American Desert with an epigraph that reminds readers that many of the greatest civilizations are now desert wastelands–and that the West...
by Margaret Pearcy Fleming | Apr 6, 2020
At the Kinnegad Home for the Bewildered by Jeffrey Levine Salmon Poetry, 2019 And all that night, throughout the world, a terrible noise of sheep / bleating and of bells from the church towers, of wooden houses cracking, / and the cries of...
