by Elizabeth Rees | Nov 25, 2021
101 Jewish Poems for the Third Millennium, edited by Matthew E. Silverman and Nancy Naomi Carlson (Ashland Poetry Press, 2021), arrives just in time — in the midst of a pandemic, after an alarming resurgence of anti-Semitism in the United States, if not across...
by David Cavanagh | Mar 6, 2021
No More Timeby Greg DelantyLSU Press, 2020
by Anne Graue | Jan 4, 2021
Obitby Victoria ChangCopper Canyon Press, 2020 Victoria Chang’s collection, Obit, seems to have anticipated the prolonged good-byes of 2020. In it, Chang says good-bye to loved ones, feelings, objects—everything we feel and know, who we were and where we’re...
by Iris Jamahl Dunkle | Jan 3, 2021
Asylum: A personal, historical, natural inquiry in 103 lyric sectionsby Jill BialoskyKnopf, 2020 This stunning book-length poem, broken up into 103 sections, examines the grief and trauma associated with losing a young sister from suicide. Threaded also through these...
by Alexandra Mayer | Sep 13, 2020
Parturitionby Heather TreselerSouthword Editions, 2020 Heather Treseler’s new chapbook Parturition, named after the technical term for childbirth, is punctuated with medical vocabulary. Anhedonia, the inability to feel pleasure. Caul, a baby born with a piece of...
by S.T. Brant | Sep 1, 2020
The Fire Eaterby Jose Hernandez DiazTexas A&M University Press, 2020 Surrealism is a flight against Oblivion. Taking to the winds of Memory on the magical wings of the supra-real. Reality through an extraordinary idea of Reality. What creates memory and what...
