Melissa Christine Goodrum’s something sweet & filled with blood, Reviewed by Brian Fanelli
Melissa Christine Goodrum something sweet & filled with blood great weather for MEDIA Reviewer: Brian Fanelli Poetry has always had a rich relationship and conversation with other art forms, and some of the most anthologized poems are ekphrastic poems, be it Keats’s “Ode to Grecian Urn” or Anne Sexton’s “The Starry Night.” The impact of […]
John Fry’s with the dogstar as my witness, Reviewed by Cindy Hochman
John Fry with the dogstar as my witness Orison Books Reviewer: Cindy Hochman The seeming contradiction of religion is that it often perpetuates the very problems it is asked to resolve, especially for someone who wants to believe but whose fundamental values are antithetical to its core tenets. It is no wonder, then, that “in […]
Lynne Thompson’s Fretwork, Reviewed by Erica Goss
Lynne Thompson Fretwork Marsh Hawk Press Reviewer: Erica Goss What makes a family – biology, desire, accident or choice? In Lynne Thompson’s Fretwork, family is all of these and more. An adoptee, the author examines adoption’s fraught emotional territory with an unsentimental eye, taking the reader through the web of abandonment, coincidence, and mystery surrounding […]
George Franklin’s Traveling for No Good Reason, Reviewed by Richard Allen Taylor
George Franklin Traveling for No Good Reason Sheila-Na-Gig Editions Reviewer: Richard Allen Taylor Most of the traveling in George Franklin’s new poetry collection is done not by train or plane but by memory. This has several advantages. Traveling by memory is inexpensive, instantaneous, and allows the traveler to go backwards and forwards in time. For […]
Lee Rossi’s Darwin’s Garden: Studies from Life, Reviewed by Ann Wehrman
Lee Rossi Darwin’s Garden: Studies from Life Moon Tide Press Reviewer: Ann Wehrman In Darwin’s Garden, the formidable poet Lee Rossi reflects upon life in 21st century America, as well as his own past decades growing up, through the lens of “a middle-class Catholic boy from the suburbs of St Louis…[t]wo generations away from Italy, […]
