Kristy Bowen – Plane Missing Since 1939 Lands
Plane Missing Since 1939 Lands Over the Atlantic, everything looks like sky— ocean, cloud-cover, the rocky sand. All sky. All blue we keep wanting to fly into. We were broken before we started, busted landing gear. Cracked altimeter. My suitcase had a gash from Paris running straight across the middle. Into which I threw hope […]
Keith Flynn’s The Skin of Meaning, Reviewed by David E. Poston
Keith Flynn The Skin of Meaning Red Hen Press Reviewed by David E. Poston Keith Flynn might be the love child of William Blake and Etta James. In his latest collection, The Skin of Meaning, he moves easily from whisper to croon to full-throated growl. As in his five earlier collections, he shows his skillful […]
Heather Swan’s A Kinship with Ash, Reviewed by Erica Goss
Heather Swan A Kinship with Ash Terrapin Books Reviewer: Erica Goss “A hot wind … // ushers in the end / of the holocene.” These lines from the poem “Heat I” bring us face-to-face with the raw truth at the heart of Heather Swan’s A Kinship with Ash. In a voice detached and devastatingly precise, […]
Roy Bentley’s My Mother’s Red Ford: New & Selected Poems 1986-2020, Reviewed by Brian Fanelli
Roy Bentley My Mother’s Red Ford: New & Selected Poems 1986-2020 Lost Horse Press Reviewer: Brian Fanelli Roy Bentley’s My Mother’s Red Ford may be a collection of the poet’s work from the last several decades, beginning with his 1986 book Boy in a Boat, and concluding with new poems, but it’s also a fine […]
Matthew Mumber’s In the Awakening Season, Reviewed by Maria Rouphail
Matthew Mumber In the Awakening Season Leapfolio Press Reviewer: Maria Rouphail As I write in mid-November, Americans are witnessing the unprecedented spectacle of a sitting President refusing to concede his defeat in what his own US Department of Homeland Security has deemed the most fair and free election in American history. This same President has […]
