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, […]
Tony Gloeggler’s What Kind of Man, Reviewed by Shawn Pavey
Tony Gloeggler What Kind of Man NYQ Books Reviewer: Shawn Pavey Tony Gloeggler’s What Kind of Man reads like a verse memoir as each poem bleeds into the next and builds upon what has come before. The poems deal with challenging themes – romantic and familial love, illness, treatment, recovery, aging, mortality, and loss – […]
Malaika King Albrecht’s The Stumble Fields, Reviewed by Vivian Wagner
Malaika King Albrecht The Stumble Fields Main Street Rag Publishing Company Reviewer: Vivian Wagner The Stumble Fields, a new collection of poetry by Malaika King Albrecht, is about life and death and everything in between. These poems explore how we inhabit the earth and how we can find our way to grace and beauty, even […]
George Drew’s Drumming Armageddon, Reviewed by Brian Fanelli
George Drew Drumming Armageddon Madville Publishing Reviewer: Brian Fanelli To read George Drew’s Drumming Armageddon is to remember what it’s like to hear the blues for the first time, or to recall those teenage years, making out with a girl in the backseat of a car, or to recant the type of meal that your […]
Al Maginnes’s Sleeping through the Graveyard Shift, Reviewed by Lee Rossi
Al Maginnes Sleeping through the Graveyard Shift Redhawk Publications Reviewer: Lee Rossi Even after seven books and numerous chapbooks, Al Maginnes shows no signs of tiring. Sleeping Through the Graveyard Shift, Maginnes’s new book, has an easier, more relaxed feel than his earlier work, yet it is filled with passion and compassion. The subjects are […]
