Mike James’s Leftover Distances, Reviewed by David E. Poston
Mike James Leftover Distances Luchador Press Reviewer: David E. Poston In “Almost Autumn and Time to Go,” from his new collection Leftover Distances, Mike James writes, Everything goes back to travel. Get to heaven or just over there. Some of us stay ready. We live by love or fear. Maybe adventures are one street over. […]
Christopher Bursk’s With Aeneas in a Time of Plague, Reviewed by Vivian Wagner
Christopher Bursk With Aeneas in a Time of Plague Ragged Sky Press Reviewer: Vivian Wagner With Aeneas in a Time of Plague, Christopher Bursk’s last collection, is a book about loss and death, hope and renewal. It is, in many ways, a pandemic book, published in the midst of Covid and always on some level […]
Ted Jonathan’s Unholy Melodies: New & Collected, Reviewed by Shawn Pavey
Ted Jonathan Unholy Melodies: New and Collected NYQ Books Reviewer: Shawn Pavey Ted Jonathan is a poet known to many in the small press community. So, news of his passing in February of this year struck the community hard. I didn’t know him. I don’t know the circumstances surrounding his passing other than what I’ve […]
Lidia Kosk’s Meadows of Memory, Reviewed by Paul Sohar
Lidia Kosk Meadows of Memory Translated from the Polish by Danuta E. Kosk-Kosicka Apprentice House Press Reviewer: Paul Sohar Ideally, the reviewer reporting on a volume of translation should be familiar with the source material as thoroughly as the target language, though this basic requirement is often overlooked when it comes to a source language […]
Nehassaiu deGannes’ Music for Exile, Reviewed by Jessica Drake-Thomas
Nehassaiu deGannes Music for Exile Tupelo Press Reviewer: Jessica Drake-Thomas “It is music for exile … for symptoms of migra/tion. It is the languishing. Pick / through your belongings. Decide what to take,” says the speaker in Nehassaiu deGannes’s collection of poetry, Music for Exile. It’s the easiest thing that you can take with you: […]
