Joan Colby’s Her Heartsongs, Reviewed by Erica Goss
Joan Colby Her Heartsongs Presa Press Reviewer: Erica Goss The wild and the domestic live side-by-side in Joan Colby’s new collection, Her Heartsongs. The tension between the two realms gives these poems their energy and edge. These are stories of love and peril precariously balanced in a world where persistence wins over passivity. The first […]
Mack Mani – The Ghost of Sigma Chi
The Ghost of Sigma Chi They say I was a Chi O girl or a 1950s haze-gone-wrong, an OD or a suicide and there was one sweetheart who swore up and down that I was her aunt, slaughtered by Ted Bundy in the summer of ’76. I polish off the empties and give the freshman […]
Denise Dumars – Mars Must Remember
Mars Must Remember Ice cubes clink in the red warrior’s drink and he gazes fondly toward his iron planet, a scarred and winded desert of a land. You remind us that all politics are local politics, that peace depends upon a show of strength. Then why the desolate landscape? Is the face of Mars really […]
C.L. Nehmer – First Crime Scene Photos, 1888
First Crime Scene Photos, 1888 They’re eerie, these black and whites, camouflaging the cryptic message of a disemboweled corpse. Eyelashes like a lamb, did she enter the pub where he communed at the bar, forge a quick and dirty deal, a pulling out from the pub to survey a cathedral dome sky over London’s East […]
