Michael Hettich’s The Halo of Bees: New & Selected Poems 1990-2022, Reviewed by Vivian Wagner
Michael Hettich The Halo of Bees: New & Selected Poems 1990-2022 Press 53 Reviewer: Vivian Wagner Michael Hettich’s The Halo of Bees is a remarkable collection of poems from several decades, and together they form a kind of tapestry with recurring themes, images, and motifs. Many of the poems explore nature and wilderness, often as […]
Abbie Kiefer’s Certain Shelter, Reviewed by Elisabeth Adwin Edwards
Abbie Kiefer Certain Shelter June Road Press Reviewer: Elisabeth Adwin Edwards Once in a rare while, a poet’s book finds its way into the hands of a reader and upon finishing it the reader’s world feels changed somehow, charged with new meaning. Perhaps it’s that the themes in the work resonate with the reader so […]
Vankshita Mishra – describing an evening in 90007
describing an evening in 90007 Two men paint a roof. The cumbia ricochets off the shiny white, this new coat startling next to the dust-encrusted taupe of its adjoining walls. This will cool the building, cheaply. June unfurls, tightening the grip of the sun on this part of the world. The labour never stops, the […]
Suzanne S. Rancourt – Juice the Lasers
Juice the Lasers fiber optic lasers juiced to pinprick speed leave a hair strand width gash clean scalpel slice – a directive – perhaps engaging car doors – hinges mind to body working the metal with acetyl torch these cutouts hold jaggedness to angled step lightning bolts i’m still a tad squirrely with all this […]
Christopher Nelson – Consequence
Consequence The magpies have shit on the frieze of the ancient temple. By Western standards, that makes them king. At colossal scale, the lunging naked warrior, cock and nuts heavy as a giraffe’s— I’m reprimanded for taking a photo. Most of the muscled boys, their white torsos and cold loins, are castrated. Everyone resents how […]
