John Schneider – Collisions
Collisions Captive, held tight by hard metal and soft leather, an apparition in progress, pulsing red lights like someone else’s heartbeat, sirens cutting in and back out like how he once taught me to slice perfectly through a coconut’s shell to get at its meat or release everything wild within so that shiny new Christmas […]
Hayden Saunier – How It Went
How It Went Because the doe lay down to die in our field, dark bloom smudged on one flank, I kept watch over her from behind the barnyard wall as I worked and waited for the man from church who eats what he kills to arrive with his gun. I was twisting grapevines into wreaths, […]
Lesley Wheeler’s Mycocosmic, Reviewed by Laurie Kuntz
Lesley Wheeler Mycocosmic Tupelo Press Reviewer: Laurie Kuntz Lesley Wheeler’s sixth poetry collection, Mycocosmic, mystifies, engages, and thrills the reader with stories of love, loss, identity, acceptance, and connection. An example of this haunting occurs in “An Underworld”, a poem about parental abuse: I stopped my breath for as long as I could in the […]
Scott Ferry’s Sapphires on the Graves, Reviewed by Rebecca Patrascu
Scott Ferry Sapphires on the Graves Glass Lyre Press Reviewer: Rebecca Patrascu In Scott Ferry’s new collection, Sapphires on the Graves, form, format, and subject work together to create poetic montages, shifting collages of dreams, domestic scenes, and views of the subconscious mind. The opening lines of the first piece, “guam,” place readers immediately in a […]
Joan Kwon Glass’s Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms, Reviewed by Elisabeth Adwin Edwards
Joan Kwon Glass Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms Perugia Press Reviewer: Elisabeth Adwin Edwards In her powerful second full-length collection, poet Joan Kwon Glass never shies away from difficult questions. “The first Koreans were part god, part beast,” begins the final stanza of the opening poem, “Bloodline.” The poet continues, “Every morning I look in […]
