A Friend of Dorothy’s by Richard Willett
The focus of the book is that compassionate curiosity of the narrator Eric as he tries to puzzle out his life, his times.
Pearl Pirie
Hag Dances by Susan Wismer
There’s a haiku quality to her observations, and symmetry of sound, with profound weight.
Looking for Her by Carolyn Marie Souaid
Occasionally you read a book and love it and then you reread it and it is deeper, more architecturally sophisticated, not just an absorbing read, and you love it more and hope it will be on curricula for decades.
Why I Wrote This Book Issue #47
Featuring Pearl Pirie, Alexis Von Konigslow, Caitlin Galway, and Farah Ghafoor
Myth by Terese Mason Pierre
A widening gaze from a personal, deep past to a path forward for the wider scope of society.
Letters to My Dead Name by Richelle Lee Slota
Letters to my Dead Name is honest, dynamic, and vulnerable.
a disobedient gathering: poems for plants who can’t stay put by Katherine Barrett
The poems have a casual swagger and impish play with their subjects.
UNMET: poems by stephanie roberts
It’s lovely to read a collection and not once be pestered by the question, why is this a poem? Like her previous poems are not facile or conversational narratives. They are dense and intense.
I Am So Calm by Alice Burdick
[Burdick] concludes with admission of ephemerality of both grief and grace, “Our bodies take everything in, then dispose/ of the everything, gradually.”
Robert Duncan at Disney World by Andy Weaver
From what I’ve seen his form of poetry makes use of the whole page, not as in scattered individual words but as metrical spacing of phrases.
Dog and Moon by Kelly Shepherd
Dog and Moon is a slow read, not because it is hard so much as it is rich and rewarding, so satisfies early and often.
Throwback: Go by Shelley A. Leedahl
In Go, Shelley A. Leedahl somehow mixes the best ratio of acknowledging muff-ups and small griefs, isolation and loss with a scintillating report of loving life.
Bait & Switch by Jim Johnstone
Do you ever wish poets would include essays to situate their poems? Some frank prose that ponders what their own poetry comes out of or means to do? We can’t follow every crumb trailer life, and not every aesthetic reaches universally. Consequently this book of essays, Bait & Switch: Essays, Reviews, Conversations, and views on …
IGoli | EGoli: Poems by Salimah Valiani
The meaning of the title IGoli | EGoli: Poems, by Salimah Valiani is not self-evident without a search. What does it mean? eGoli means “Place of Gold”.
