Neil Shepard’s The Book of Failures, Reviewed by Brian Fanelli
The Book of Failures Neil Shepard Madville Publishing Reviewer: Brian Fanelli The last few years have been anything but easy. The world has faced a global pandemic and resurgent far-right populism and nationalism. Neil Shepard’s latest collection, The Book of Failures, tackles these issues head-on. The result is one of Shepard’s most socially conscious and […]
Lola Haskins’ Homelight, Reviewed by Lee Rossi
Homelight Lola Haskins Charlotte Lit Press Reviewer: Lee Rossi Lola Haskins, who has published 14 books of poetry as well as 3 prose volumes, is a poet whose left brain is quite as active as her right. (Haskins, you should know, taught computer science for three decades at the University of Florida.) Not long ago, […]
Alexis Rhone Fancher’s Brazen, Reviewed by Brian Fanelli
Brazen Alexis Rhone Fancher NYQ Books Reviewer: Brian Fanelli Anyone even slightly familiar with Alexis Rhone Fancher’s work knows that she doesn’t shy away from sexually charged and raunchy poetry. Her collected works for NYQ Books is called Erotic, for example. Her latest, Brazen, continues the tradition of poems that ooze with fierce and bold […]
Francesca Bell’s What Small Sound, Reviewed by Vivian Wagner
What Small Sound Francesca Bell Red Hen Press Reviewer: Vivian Wagner What Small Sound, a new poetry collection by Francesca Bell, is an exploration of life, death, and love, and of the myriad ways these essential elements of human existence intersect and define each other. The poems in this collection don’t offer any easy answers […]
Preeti Kaur Rajpal’s membery, Reviewed by Karen Corinne Herceg
membery Preeti Kaur Rajpal Tupelo Press Reviewer: Karen Corinne Herceg Preeti Kaur Rajpal’s haunting debut collection, membery, explores the impact of colonialism and displacement from a deeply personal perspective. Rajpal’s family is uprooted after the violent and poorly orchestrated 1947 partition of the subcontinent that became India and Pakistan after three centuries of British rule. […]
