Keith Flynn’s The Skin of Meaning, Reviewed by David E. Poston
Keith Flynn The Skin of Meaning Red Hen Press Reviewed by David E. Poston Keith Flynn might be the love child of William Blake and Etta James. In his latest collection, The Skin of Meaning, he moves easily from whisper to croon to full-throated growl. As in his five earlier collections, he shows his skillful […]
Heather Swan’s A Kinship with Ash, Reviewed by Erica Goss
Heather Swan A Kinship with Ash Terrapin Books Reviewer: Erica Goss “A hot wind … // ushers in the end / of the holocene.” These lines from the poem “Heat I” bring us face-to-face with the raw truth at the heart of Heather Swan’s A Kinship with Ash. In a voice detached and devastatingly precise, […]
Roy Bentley’s My Mother’s Red Ford: New & Selected Poems 1986-2020, Reviewed by Brian Fanelli
Roy Bentley My Mother’s Red Ford: New & Selected Poems 1986-2020 Lost Horse Press Reviewer: Brian Fanelli Roy Bentley’s My Mother’s Red Ford may be a collection of the poet’s work from the last several decades, beginning with his 1986 book Boy in a Boat, and concluding with new poems, but it’s also a fine […]
Matthew Mumber’s In the Awakening Season, Reviewed by Maria Rouphail
Matthew Mumber In the Awakening Season Leapfolio Press Reviewer: Maria Rouphail As I write in mid-November, Americans are witnessing the unprecedented spectacle of a sitting President refusing to concede his defeat in what his own US Department of Homeland Security has deemed the most fair and free election in American history. This same President has […]
William Greenway – Quarantines
Quarantines i Imagine the media coverage of the Black Death, whole families boarded up to die inside, the comic bring-out-your-dead carts, cameras on location by the mass graves, Shakespeare, the Globe closed, Lear televised to the yokels. Tired of YouTube, my bored daughter draws over and over stick figures with straw hair like the thatch […]
