Marion Starling Boyer’s Ice Hours, Reviewed by Rebecca Patrascu
Marion Starling Boyer Ice Hours Wheelbarrow Books Reviewer: Rebecca Patrascu On June 9th, shipwreck hunters announced that they had found Quest, the ship on which Ernest Shackleton died almost exactly a century ago. The timing of the discovery is fortuitous for poet Marion Starling Boyer, whose new collection Ice House tells the story of the […]
Brett Elizabeth Jenkins’ Brilliant Little Body, Reviewed by Shawn Pavey
Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Brilliant Little Body Riot in Your Throat Reviewer: Shawn Pavey Brilliant Little Body is Brett Elizabeth Jenkins’ first full-length collection. This volume, from Riot In Your Throat, is a beautifully designed book with a striking cover image by Beth Madeley. From the opening poem, it becomes evident that what I witnessed at […]
Diane Seuss’s Modern Poetry, Reviewed by Erica Goss
Diane Seuss Modern Poetry Graywolf Press, 2024 Reviewer: Erica Goss A testimonial to Diane Seuss’s enduring commitment to the art of poetry, her latest collection is harrowing, hilarious, disconcerting, and fearless. This memoir-in-verse reverberates with pitch-perfect observations gleaned from her years as an academic outsider, the combination of pain and pride forged during her working-class […]
Zixiang Zhang – rock art in the nevadan dunes
rock art in the nevadan dunes i. on the day before more rain, an olivine stag appears in my dream. two prongs, pinnate arms, ermines from the magnetic king’s pen covering his mane & lumbar broad-beams i’ve ridden on, returning now more bowstrung & with seasoning. drums of the ponderosas whine, sages drop spines, cover […]
Bryan D. Price – Exiled from the family of man
Exiled from the family of man he sees something maybe it’s a painting maybe it’s a poem or a bird or just a dream maybe it’s the thing that will one day come out of the clouds to kill him he sees it clearly at first and then as if through stained glass and then […]
