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...
by Iris Jamahl Dunkle | Jul 30, 2020
Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop by Thomas Travisano Viking, 2019 During my first semester at New York University, I was excited to take a survey course in American Poetry. When the old, male professor passed out the syllabus I wasn’t at...
by McKenzie Lynn Tozan | Jul 26, 2020
Louder Birds by Angela Voras-Hills LSU Press, 2020 From the first moment I stepped into Angela Voras-Hills’ collection, Louder Birds, I knew I was in the presence of something vital. The collection opens with the particularly captivating poem, “Retrospective,”...
