Amanda J. Bradley’s Queen Kong, Reviewed by Cindy Hochman
Amanda J. Bradley Queen Kong NYQ Books Reviewer: Cindy Hochman Between dolls and dalliance, I begin to realize my body can be a weapon, can be violated, can be impregnated, can make me strong or weak. —“Fourteen” Even before your mind seizes on the heroic aspects of the comic-book cover of Mrs. Kong as a […]
Mischa Willett’s Phases, Reviewed by Lee Rossi
Mischa Willett Phases Cascade Books Reviewer: Lee Rossi The latest volume in the Poiema Poetry Series, which, as the series editor declares, “presents the work of gifted poets who take Christian faith seriously,” Mischa Willett’s Phases is less noteworthy for its declarations of religious belief than for the way it mimics poets for whom Christianity […]
John Elsberg’s Not Quite Ocean: Selected Poems, Reviewed by Richard Allen Taylor
John Elsberg Not Quite Ocean: Selected Poems of John Elsberg (Constance M. Elsberg, Editor) Paycock Press Reviewer: Richard Allen Taylor Not Quite Ocean celebrates the poetry of John Elsberg (1945-2012), a poet, editor, and historian who authored over a dozen poetry books and chapbooks and served as editor or associate editor of various literary magazines, […]
Kristin Fitzsimmons – The subcommittee
The subcommittee will hear testimony of bubonic guinea pigs international bodies haphazard exterminat – ion The cloud would descend upon a village or upon people The cloud seemed to be made up of small particles blood-tinged rain I would compare it to offering somebody a cigarette such as the […]
Paul Sohar – War in Snow
War in Snow …and snow, too, was whiter and more plentiful in the old days, the whole world was disguised in bleached hospital gowns to make the terrain seem arctic and confusing from above, from the huge planes looking for the house where I lived to drop a deliriously explosive xmas present but why did […]
