Amy Small-McKinney – Beautiful and Longing to be Known, Amsterdam and Belgium
Beautiful and Longing to be Known, Amsterdam and Belgium How can you change the world if you can’t remember the word? —Eva Gerlach, trans. by P.C. Evans 1. In Van Gogh’s painting the “Olive Grove” his trees are bent and twisted and one a woman’s body the ground below her browns and streaky blacks more […]
Amy Small-McKinney’s & You Think It Ends, Reviewed by Brian Fanelli
Amy Small-McKinney & You Think It Ends Glass Lyre Press Reviewer: Brian Fanelli Though it’s likely Amy Small-McKinney wrote the poems that compose & You Think It Ends before the second Trump administration, her latest work feels particularly relevant, as well as defiant, given the constant onslaught of grim headlines. The collection addresses gun violence, […]
Amy Small-McKinney – Inside Our Womb of Danger
Inside Our Womb of Danger After Yehuda Amichai In our basement, a walk-in closet spacious enough for all of us, shelves-to-ceiling provisions: peas, sauerkraut, dried milk. Bomb shelter and cupboard never used except to grab an extra can while mother cooked, or a condiment, say, for a lamb dinner in our kitchen where father slammed […]
Amy Small McKinney’s One Day I Am a Field, Reviewed by Erica Goss
Amy Small-McKinney One Day I Am a Field Glass Lyre Press Reviewer: Erica Goss “Instantly, soundlessly, a meadow called bereft.” — “One Day I Am a Field” In her most recent poetry collection, Amy Small-McKinney delivers a devastating account of caregiving’s emotional and physical tolls. By turns fierce, exhausted, passionate, and wise, the speaker in […]
Amy Small-McKinney – How to Love the World, Anyway
How To Love The World, Anyway Except in light rain a body becomes a ringed seal, pinniped, fore-flippers balanced against shore ice, exhaling to empty half-lungs before a dive. Be half-quiet, half-drunk rain drizzling on a body that has decided to love at least half-way. Return to your simple tile floor—real— won’t lift or levitate […]
