Malaika King Albrecht’s The Stumble Fields, Reviewed by Vivian Wagner
Malaika King Albrecht The Stumble Fields Main Street Rag Publishing Company Reviewer: Vivian Wagner The Stumble Fields, a new collection of poetry by Malaika King Albrecht, is about life and death and everything in between. These poems explore how we inhabit the earth and how we can find our way to grace and beauty, even […]
Adele Kenny’s Wind Over Stones, Reviewed by Vivian Wagner
Adele Kenny Wind Over Stones Welcome Rain Publishers Reviewer: Vivian Wagner Wind Over Stones is a remarkable collection of ekphrastic prose poems by Adele Kenny exploring mortality, loss, and joy. At the bottom of each poem’s page there’s a QR code leading to the artwork that inspired the poem, and this design proves a creative […]
Irène Mathieu’s Grand Marronage , Reviewed by Vivian Wagner
Irène Mathieu Grand Marronage Switchback Books Reviewer: Vivian Wagner Irène Mathieu’s Grand Marronage is a collection of poems about escape, freedom, community, and intergenerational trauma. The term “grand marronage” refers to people who escaped the slavery of plantations and established their own communities outside of slave society. The book’s poems explore literal and figurative grand […]
Ilyse Kusnetz’s Angel Bones, Reviewed by Vivian Wagner
Ilyse Kusnetz Angel Bones Alice James Books Reviewer: Vivian Wagner Ilyse Kusnetz’s Angel Bones is a posthumous collection about mortality, and about finding life and connection even in the midst of – and beyond – death. Kusnetz, who died from cancer in 2016, writes about love and loss in a way that’s both lovely and […]
