Dan Encarnacion – Saint
Saint An infielder’s glove webbing shoe-laced weathered stiff as This diner slag’s Tuesday smile—lost, its boldness the seared- In signature Ron Santo. Sunnyside-up were the Cubbies in ’69 then broke the yolk— yellow bleeding sopped by thin Toast, hash browns limp in greased sleep, sausages Shivered. Overcocked. We had cheered as long as my Brother could bear the pain. Wanted to be […]
Marc Frazier’s Each Things Touches,
Reviewed by Richard Allen Taylor
Marc Frazier Each Thing Touches Glass Lyre Press ISBN: 978-1-941783-07-8 Reviewer: Richard Allen Taylor Most poetry collections have a poem near the beginning that gives the reader clues on how to read the book. Each Thing Touches by Chicago poet Marc Frazier has at least two. The prologue poem, “After,” opens with “I heard […]
Richard Broderick’s Jesus of Walmart,
Reviewed by George Wallace
Richard Broderick Jesus of Walmart New York Quarterly Books ISBN: 978-1-63045-019-9 Reviewer: George Wallace One might wonder, given a title like Jesus of Walmart, what kind of admixture of commentary poet Richard Broderick is going to offer concerning the presence of the sacred and the profane in contemporary American society. What immediately comes to […]
Candace Pearson – Aubade: Again
Aubade: Again Darling, all night I have been flickering, off, on, off, on. —Sylvia Plath Good morning friend faithful one still here with me Last night you came to visit once more and through the wakened and wakening hours wouldn’t stop whispering and here you are again or you never left so insistent on loyalty […]
Lynn Schmeidler – The Moment a Husband Stops Being a Husband and Starts Being a Black and White Photograph of a Husband
The Moment a Husband Stops Being a Husband and Starts Being a Black and White Photograph of a Husband You were imagining little mountains in the soap bubbles in the bathroom sink all summer long and you forgot you were a leopard, meant to spot everything. More darkness every day. You wouldn’t know when, exactly, […]
