Revelation and Reconciliation in Rob Taylor’s “Strangers”
In Strangers, Rob Taylor makes new the epiphany poem: the short lyric ending with a moment of recognition or arrival.
In Strangers, Rob Taylor makes new the epiphany poem: the short lyric ending with a moment of recognition or arrival.
Evie Christie’s second poetry collection Mere Extinction forthcoming from ECW Press is a sprawling empire of beating hearts and lost children, apocalyptic prepping and climate change, single moms and human bewilderment.
Jen Sookfong Lee is a seasoned writer with several notable books, but The Shadow List forthcoming this Spring from Wolsak & Wynn is her first poetry collection. It is so refreshing to see a poet embrace the personal lyric, the confessional mode, so freely and expertly.
Robert Colman’s third book of poetry, Democratically Applied Machine, is a back-to-basics approach to creation. In poems that inhabit both industrial and domestic landscapes, Colman traces his inheritance to determine how his life echoes that of his forebears, even as the past blurs with the onset of his father’s Alzheimer’s dementia.
Marvin Bell died yesterday. A poetic giant has fallen. His Dead Man poems are everything good poetry is about: deeply imagistic, humane, formally ambitious, culturally significant, political without pretension, and on and on. It is the work of a lifetime. His death made me realize most of my poetic mentors are now gone. Hayden Carruth. Mark Strand. Philip Levine. And now Marvin Bell.
Bob Hicok’s Red Rover Red Rover is joyous and macabre, hopeful and morbid, caring and critical.
I have to admit I was not prepared for how exquisite the first poem “Let …
About the author: Lauren Turner is a disabled poet and essayist, who wrote the chapbook, We’re Not …
STANDING TOGETHER AGAINST OURSELVES By Bob Hicok BOB HICOK’S tenth collection, Red Rover Red Rover, will be …
Double Self-Portrait by James Lindsay resembles a meta-textual hive, full of a buzzing energy created by the many connections the poems weave among themselves.
When my first book came out, I was suddenly thrust into the spotlight as “an …
Tough and rumble A view of waves & breaks, sword into fog. A child in …
[dropcap]The[/dropcap] first line from the poem “Seeds” in Conyer Clayton’s debut collection We Shed Our …
In his first poetry collection If You Discover A Fire from Brick Books, Shaun Robinson spins out poems that describe, in precise detail, a faded and fallen world.
[dropcap]In [/dropcap]Curtis LeBlanc’s Birding In The Glass Age of Isolation, mental illness, masculinity, and storytelling …