Hayden Saunier’s A Cartography of Home, Reviewed by Lee Rossi
Hayden Saunier A Cartography of Home Terrapin Books Reviewer: Lee Rossi Hayden Saunier is one of those poet farmers who are distinctive in our culture for their scarcity. We remember Frost. We may know Donald Hall and Wendell Berry. We may even recall Horace, with an estate gifted by his patron Maecenas and worked by […]
Gilbert Allen – Cross Dressers
Cross Dressers God only knew why they’d sought out his church for the detritus of their Saturdays. As pastor, he was always first one there on Sunday mornings. Lately he’d been parking in the bleak darkness just before the dawn to police the symbol of the risen Christ— remove the Clemson cap, or produce bag […]
Michael Montlack – When God
When God is your brother, solitary, first born, aloof and one step ahead, able but not always willing to share his wisdom. When God is an idol under your pillow, listening, you assume, never speaking, though you sometimes swear there’s a whisper clear as the strum of a Sunday night busker, his well-worn guitar like […]
Alexis Rhone Fancher’s Erotic: New & Selected, Reviewed by Ann Wehrman
Alexis Rhone Fancher Erotic: New & Selected NYQ Books Reviewer: Ann Wehrman Erotic: New & Selected showcases eighty poems by Alexis Rhone Fancher, accompanied by her original photography. Reflecting on erotic experiences as an adult and reaching back into girlhood, the narrative and prose poems chronicle passionate encounters and relationships in vignettes that sizzle with […]
Julie Danho’s Those Who Keep Arriving, Reviewed by Erica Goss
Julie Danho Those Who Keep Arriving Silverfish Review Press Reviewer: Erica Goss In her debut poetry collection, Julie Danho brings together themes of ancestors, displacement, ethnicity, and marriage. Moving across continents and through relationships, Danho juxtaposes the ordinary against the disquieting, finding her journey through life echoed in the experiences of her parents and grandparents. […]
