Brett Elizabeth Jenkins’ Brilliant Little Body, Reviewed by Shawn Pavey
Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Brilliant Little Body Riot in Your Throat Reviewer: Shawn Pavey Brilliant Little Body is Brett Elizabeth Jenkins’ first full-length collection. This volume, from Riot In Your Throat, is a beautifully designed book with a striking cover image by Beth Madeley. From the opening poem, it becomes evident that what I witnessed at […]
Diane Seuss’s Modern Poetry, Reviewed by Erica Goss
Diane Seuss Modern Poetry Graywolf Press, 2024 Reviewer: Erica Goss A testimonial to Diane Seuss’s enduring commitment to the art of poetry, her latest collection is harrowing, hilarious, disconcerting, and fearless. This memoir-in-verse reverberates with pitch-perfect observations gleaned from her years as an academic outsider, the combination of pain and pride forged during her working-class […]
Ae Hee Lee’s Asterism, Reviewed by Elisabeth Adwin Edwards
Asterism Ae Hee Lee Tupelo Press Reviewer: Elisabeth Adwin Edwards In a recent online event in which Ae Hee Lee read poems from her new, first full-length collection, Asterism, she shared that in writing it she was “engaging with the idea of longing,” which she “tried to reimagine as something that moves and expands … […]
Lee Rossi’s Say Anything, Reviewed by Rebecca Patrascu
Say Anything Lee Rossi Plain View Press Reviewer: Rebecca Patrascu “Everything fits into everything else,” Lee Rossi tells us in the opening poem of his fifth collection. The idea is handy packaging for a book entitled Say Anything, but it prompts the question: if one might include anything and everything, what does one choose to […]
