Tony Gloeggler – New School Old School
New School Old School A Sunday barbecue at my brother’s, and my mom is reading my niece’s report card out loud. The words bright, generous, creative, inquisitive, sensitive, mingle with the smoky aroma. Hungry, I’d just give her a B+ so we can start to please pass the ribs. She’s smart, funny, cool, knows her […]
Sara Backer – History
History Hi, story! His story. His store. Hissed. Hissed or missed. Mist story, mystery. My story? Stories of stories stored in the story store. H. Aitch. Ache. Ache + I = story. Aye. Eye to my eye. I as in is. (Ms, not his.) Who tore the story? Y? Thorny, hissy. Restore the story. His. […]
Eleanor Kedney’s Between the Earth and Sky, Reviewed by Richard Allen Taylor
Eleanor Kedney Beneath the Earth and Sky C&R Press Reviewer: Richard Allen Taylor Eleanor Kedney’s new full-length poetry collection Beneath the Earth and Sky memorializes several of the author’s family members, living and dead, with the latter far outnumbering the former. She draws our attention first to her brother, Peter, to whom the book is […]
Leonard Gontarek – About the Great Trees
About The Great Trees I write about the great trees. That is, the sea of leaves, a coming darkness, rising past the windows. I understand I may not understand. Not everyone does. I accept it like a train without an open seat moving past mountains, coated with purple talc, […]
Judith Skillman’s The Truth about Our American Births, Reviewed by Erica Goss
Judith Skillman The Truth about Our American Births Shanti Arts Reviewer: Erica Goss The poems in Judith Skillman’s enigmatic new collection, The Truth About Our American Births, provide clues to the shifting stories of the author’s family’s past. Bits and pieces of that elusive truth appear in various forms throughout the book: a grandmother’s eccentricities, […]
