Lynne Thompson’s Blue on a Blue Palette, Reviewed by Erica Goss
Lynne Thompson Blue on a Blue Palette BOA Editions Reviewer: Erica Goss In Blue on a Blue Palette, Lynne Thompson embarks on a journey through physical and personal geographies, exploring relationships, moods, and history, with a focus on the strength and resiliency of women. The color blue links these poems through direct and implied references. […]
Grace Cavalieri’s Owning the Not So Distant World, Reviewed by Brian Fanelli
Grace Cavalieri Owning the Not So Distant World Blue Light Press Reviewer: Brian Fanelli In her latest collection, Owning the Not So Distant World, Grace Cavalieri taps into memory through very specific images, be it a wedding dress or old furniture, to recount youth, the early stages of a relationship, and also loss. Her new […]
Gloria Mindock’s Grief Touched the Sky at Night, Reviewed by David E. Poston
Gloria Mindock Grief Touched the Sky at Night Glass Lyre Press Reviewer: David E. Poston Can poets do anything to thwart the apocalyptic evil of war? The Falangists in Spain believed so; they murdered García Lorca because they considered him as much of a threat with his pen as others with guns. Anna Akhmatova, despite […]
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 […]
