Tim Hunt’s Western Where, Reviewed by Vivian Wagner
Tim Hunt Western Where Broadstone Books Reviewer: Vivian Wagner Tim Hunt’s poetry collection, Western Where, examines both real and imagined wests, looking for glimmers of truth that lie between western myths. It’s grounded in the realities of the modern west—with its guns and single-wide trailers and diesel trucks—even as it looks backwards and sideways at […]
Marion Starling Boyer’s Ice Hours, Reviewed by Rebecca Patrascu
Marion Starling Boyer Ice Hours Wheelbarrow Books Reviewer: Rebecca Patrascu On June 9th, shipwreck hunters announced that they had found Quest, the ship on which Ernest Shackleton died almost exactly a century ago. The timing of the discovery is fortuitous for poet Marion Starling Boyer, whose new collection Ice House tells the story of the […]
Brett Elizabeth Jenkins’ Brilliant Little Body, Reviewed by Shawn Pavey
Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Brilliant Little Body Riot in Your Throat Reviewer: Shawn Pavey Brilliant Little Body is Brett Elizabeth Jenkins’ first full-length collection. This volume, from Riot In Your Throat, is a beautifully designed book with a striking cover image by Beth Madeley. From the opening poem, it becomes evident that what I witnessed at […]
Diane Seuss’s Modern Poetry, Reviewed by Erica Goss
Diane Seuss Modern Poetry Graywolf Press, 2024 Reviewer: Erica Goss A testimonial to Diane Seuss’s enduring commitment to the art of poetry, her latest collection is harrowing, hilarious, disconcerting, and fearless. This memoir-in-verse reverberates with pitch-perfect observations gleaned from her years as an academic outsider, the combination of pain and pride forged during her working-class […]
Ae Hee Lee’s Asterism, Reviewed by Elisabeth Adwin Edwards
Asterism Ae Hee Lee Tupelo Press Reviewer: Elisabeth Adwin Edwards In a recent online event in which Ae Hee Lee read poems from her new, first full-length collection, Asterism, she shared that in writing it she was “engaging with the idea of longing,” which she “tried to reimagine as something that moves and expands … […]
