Teresa Dzieglewicz’s Something Small of How to See a River, Reviewed by Vivian Wagner

Teresa Dzieglewicz Something Small of How to See a River Tupelo Press Reviewer: Vivian Wagner Teresa Dzieglewicz’s Something Small of How to See a River is a beautiful and moving collection of poems that explore the Standing Rock protests over the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline and the poet’s experiences during and after this […]

Leonard Gontarek’s Ain’t No Angel Gonna Greet Me, Reviewed by Lee Rossi

Leonard Gontarek Ain’t No Angel Gonna Greet Me BlazeVOX [books] Reviewer: Lee Rossi You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. Well, maybe not cry—maybe just tear up or breathe a heavy sigh as you page through Leonard Gontarek’s new book, Ain’t No Angel Gonna Greet Me. Let’s begin at the end, with an interview between Gontarek and poet […]

Daniela Buccilli – Not an Elegy

Not an Elegy At the Appalachian rock shop on Diamond Street,             an aquamarine woman dusts with a large pale towel the room decked in a giant spiderweb of heavy gauge             wire, palm-sized crystal-bellied spiders, red jasper stone eyes. Jasper’s good for stability. In my house             the spiders walk vertically. They drop chalk-white poop dots along […]

Heidi Seaborn – Almost Like Dying

Almost Like Dying The sun sets in a particular way in Northern California. As if the fruit from its orchards ripen all at once, skin bursting onto the atmosphere. Tonight is like that—nectarine, apricot and black plum, especially black plum. And in the stillness, there is breath— but even that is slowed. The way my […]

Richard Peabody – Witch Hazel

Witch Hazel sleek adroit Steampunk dreams naked thrift shop information rain file cabinets filled with hair a flea market that sells fleas a white elephant sale that sells albino elephants at the foot of mannequin mountain where the best rascals live and gallivant in their natty dreads and goggles         Richard Peabody […]