Poetry. Art by Lorna Stevens. "Rebecca Foust knows what goes on in 'the cricket-sung, grass-sweet dark,' and she isn't afraid to sing it. If there are moments of anxiety, intimations of mortality--if,
If Holly Prado didn't exist, the Muses would have to invent her to fulfill the imperatives of the imagination. Monkey Journal, her chronicle of small and large events over the course of a year, revea
Poetry. Following the seasons of a poet's life over the course of two years, Daniel Polikoff's DRAGON SHIP continually discovers spiritual significance in everyday "incidents of being." A ferris wheel
Poetry. "Vivid, passionate, pulsing with life in the face of loss and pain, these incantations bravely seek to void The Void. They are poems to conjure with"--Charles Harper Webb. "15th century painte
Poetry. "DEITY-ALPHABETS, Carroll Kearley's luminous first book of poems, gives testimony to Keats's knowledge that humanity's certainty resides in 'the holiness of the Heart's affections.' Plain-spok
In Polaroids, Steven Paschall develops his meditution on vision. building from snapshots of the second-sighted to a serial narrative of an artist. The poet's alter-age, as he stiches the singular mome
Poetry. "Sallie Bingham's poems forge the light and darkness to shape a body of work that engages and shines. The past and the present, the inner and the outer, are all drawn precisely with small wisd
Bruce Boston often places his poems at a balance point between what is and what's left. The tenses here are purposeful the measure is not nostalgia but a carefully nuanced reckoning of the view. "I ga
Poetry. "Although Ephraim Scott Sommers' smart, terrifying poems deny the safety of arrival, they remain in their rejection of closure stubbornly, improbably hopeful. Not for redemption or peace of mi
Poetry. "Susan Landgraf's book, WHAT WE BURY CHANGES THE GROUND is layered in history and the beauty of well-told stories. Here we enter into a world built from nature and narrative, nurture and nouri
Poetry. "In this spectacular debut collection, Brenda Yates reminds us that "bodily" knowledge is also a worldly knowledge—that is, an understanding of our own shifting circumstances—as
Poetry. "In Ezra Dan Feldman's luminously postmodern HABITAT OF STONES, 'omens are aerial,' clouds thicken -- in a deliciously precise observation -- 'like marble cake,' and 'the arrogant man' (having
Poetry. "Jackson Burgess is a phenomenal young poet, and whether he's writing against the backdrops of Los Angeles (and its dark underworld) or the bohemian gloss of Paris, he is the most urgent and r
Poetry. "Sometimes surreal, always evocative, Judith Skillman's poems seem to well up from an inner hot spring. This collection is the latest in a lengthy and rich body of work. Not merely a keen obse
Poetry. The New World Translation Series Number 5. Translated by Jon Davis and Christopher Merrill. "The Iraq that appears in DAYPLACES is a literary construct as well as a political and historical fa
Poetry. "Donna Hilbert's poems are brave, unsparing and heartfelt revealing a woman's life in a way that is universal. Her voice is confident and dodges nothing. Her poems don't waste a word. One want
Poetry. "There is great wit and a sly, honed gravitas in these poems. Florence Weinberger wrestles the ineluctable irony at work in every aspect of our lives, and wins; each poem provides a practical
Poetry. "Gayle Kaune's third book, NOISE FROM STARS, is a collection of lyric poems, rich in sense of place, surprise, and imagination. Kaune's mind takes quick leaps, sometimes shifting point of view
Magazine. Poetry. Reviews. SPILLWAY 26 is the first with editors Marsha de la O and Phil Taggart. This volume includes an interview with Patricia Smith; and features poetry by Mariano Zaro, Kim Young,
