by Jaclyn Youhana Garver | Apr 7, 2022
Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavensby Corey Van LandinghamTupelo Press 2022. There’s an unexpected character in Corey Van Landingham’s poetry collection, Love Letter to Who Owns the Heavens. It lurks around page corners, hovers above stanzas, dips into tercets. Though...
by Amy Penne | Apr 6, 2022
Book of Foolsby Sam TaylorNegative Capability Press, 2021 The music at the center of Sam Taylor’s Book of Fools is a soulful dance between myth and memory. In this work, Taylor’s Orpheus, one of several interacting characters, accompanies the reader through the gaps...
by Dara Yen Elerath | Feb 23, 2022
And So Wax Was Made & Also Honey, by Amy BeederTupelo Press, 2020 Halfway through Amy Beeder’s third, full-length collection, And so Wax was Made and Also Honey, we encounter a persona poem in the voice of the 19th century author Gustave Flaubert, known for...
by Anne Graue | Feb 18, 2022
These Few Seeds by Meghan SterlingTerrapin Books, 2021. “Maybe in death we become a collage / of what we have most longed for— / finally you are roots, seeds, earth…” This line from “Memorial at a Japanese Lilac” in Meghan Sterling’s poetry collection, These Few...
by Sarah Audsley | Jan 28, 2022
FABLESQUE by Anna Maria Hong Tupelo Press, 2020. Anna Maria Hong’s Fablesque collection (Tupelo Press 2020) is an inventive bestiary with an insistent feminist examination on what it means “to be a person instead of a very competent erasure.” Writing within the...
by Noel Quiñones | Dec 15, 2021
Jose Hernandez Diaz’s debut chapbook The Fire Eater (Texas Review Press, 2020) is a subtle and endearing surrealist love letter to the life of the everyday artist. A dedicated student of the American prose poetry tradition, Hernandez Diaz writes with the absurdist...
