Mike James’s Leftover Distances, Reviewed by David E. Poston
Mike James Leftover Distances Luchador Press Reviewer: David E. Poston In “Almost Autumn and Time to Go,” from his new collection Leftover Distances, Mike James writes, Everything goes back to travel. Get to heaven or just over there. Some of us stay ready. We live by love or fear. Maybe adventures are one street over. […]
Christopher Bursk’s With Aeneas in a Time of Plague, Reviewed by Vivian Wagner
Christopher Bursk With Aeneas in a Time of Plague Ragged Sky Press Reviewer: Vivian Wagner With Aeneas in a Time of Plague, Christopher Bursk’s last collection, is a book about loss and death, hope and renewal. It is, in many ways, a pandemic book, published in the midst of Covid and always on some level […]
Ted Jonathan’s Unholy Melodies: New & Collected, Reviewed by Shawn Pavey
Ted Jonathan Unholy Melodies: New and Collected NYQ Books Reviewer: Shawn Pavey Ted Jonathan is a poet known to many in the small press community. So, news of his passing in February of this year struck the community hard. I didn’t know him. I don’t know the circumstances surrounding his passing other than what I’ve […]
Candace Pearson – Invisible
Invisible I come from the body of no body A body that declines to see itself in the mirror understands self-protection Fade is to fading is to faded I am fluid margins shifting alliances Solid matter an illusion a pencil sketch that erases itself outlines drawn in breath or ghost ink * I come […]
Gregory W. Randall – Alba
Alba Now the showerhead sprays my chest with that first blast of cold water sitting in pipes, now too hot, now just right and now I turn my body in this small space between your shower chair and aboriginal chieftain, elephant seal, mountain gorilla thumping his chest to watch your body emerge out of stone— […]
