Michael Hettich’s The Halo of Bees: New & Selected Poems 1990-2022, Reviewed by Vivian Wagner
Michael Hettich The Halo of Bees: New & Selected Poems 1990-2022 Press 53 Reviewer: Vivian Wagner Michael Hettich’s The Halo of Bees is a remarkable collection of poems from several decades, and together they form a kind of tapestry with recurring themes, images, and motifs. Many of the poems explore nature and wilderness, often as […]
Abbie Kiefer’s Certain Shelter, Reviewed by Elisabeth Adwin Edwards
Abbie Kiefer Certain Shelter June Road Press Reviewer: Elisabeth Adwin Edwards Once in a rare while, a poet’s book finds its way into the hands of a reader and upon finishing it the reader’s world feels changed somehow, charged with new meaning. Perhaps it’s that the themes in the work resonate with the reader so […]
Lesley Wheeler’s Mycocosmic, Reviewed by Laurie Kuntz
Lesley Wheeler Mycocosmic Tupelo Press Reviewer: Laurie Kuntz Lesley Wheeler’s sixth poetry collection, Mycocosmic, mystifies, engages, and thrills the reader with stories of love, loss, identity, acceptance, and connection. An example of this haunting occurs in “An Underworld”, a poem about parental abuse: I stopped my breath for as long as I could in the […]
Scott Ferry’s Sapphires on the Graves, Reviewed by Rebecca Patrascu
Scott Ferry Sapphires on the Graves Glass Lyre Press Reviewer: Rebecca Patrascu In Scott Ferry’s new collection, Sapphires on the Graves, form, format, and subject work together to create poetic montages, shifting collages of dreams, domestic scenes, and views of the subconscious mind. The opening lines of the first piece, “guam,” place readers immediately in a […]
Joan Kwon Glass’s Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms, Reviewed by Elisabeth Adwin Edwards
Joan Kwon Glass Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms Perugia Press Reviewer: Elisabeth Adwin Edwards In her powerful second full-length collection, poet Joan Kwon Glass never shies away from difficult questions. “The first Koreans were part god, part beast,” begins the final stanza of the opening poem, “Bloodline.” The poet continues, “Every morning I look in […]
