Stuart Jay Silverman’s Report from the Sea of Moisture, Reviewed by Shawn Pavey
Report From the Sea of Moisture Stuart Jay Silverman Atmosphere Press Reviewer: Shawn Pavey Report From the Sea of Moisture is my first exposure to the poetry of Stuart Jay Silverman, but it will not be my last. The absence of either blurbs or an author bio and photo on the back cover in favor […]
Chante Wolf – The Forgotten Girls
The Forgotten Girls the orphan children surrounded me clay prisoners of solitary their cracked fingers in my yellow hair gripped my hands as if they held their lost families’ photographs that laid broken by their tilted dressers the bravest touched my camera begged in broken English to release the body into her hands I let […]
Erin Wilson – A Darkness of Nectar
A Darkness of Nectar My macro lens seems right for the job. I am trying to determine what a sunflower is. “Sun” flower, a source of light? I go to move an inflorescence, one of the heads, and am made shy, humble, by the weight of it. No matter where I focus, not enough. The […]
Chad Weeden – Freezer Burn
Freezer Burn I pull in late. Ripe with the day’s brine. Shuffle up the steps. Melodies of traffic like wannabe ballads still drumming in my ears, stale as the aimless motion, always rushing to this from that, always something as we go: a hole in a bag, tidal waves, rifling for keys in the other […]
Eileen Tabios – Why I Am Rarely Nostalgic
Why I Am Rarely Nostalgic —Bauang Beach, circa 1965 She knew she should know better I was barely older than a toddler I had played with her only daughter during those summer days of Innocence by a sapphire sea warmed by a gentle sun When it was time to leave she gently suggested I give […]
