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Review by Tessara Dudley Women In Marigold is a book of poems that explore the smallest moments of life with lush imagery and evocative metaphor. This collection is playful and serious by turns, but earnest and real throughout. Each…
Review by Rebecca Jane Continental Drift maps humanity’s kinship with a teeming variety of psycho-social natural geology. A “Field Trip” lyric considers “what rays gild a heron’s thoughts?” (10) and “what green itches each new earth in winter’s wake”…
Review by Tessara Dudley Before I know the names of every tree and birdsong along the saltmarsh, I will hold my daughter. And I will finally understand that it is possible to be both the doe standing in the clearing…
Review by Rebecca Jane The Presence of One Word reawakens a reader’s senses, inviting quiet charms to bloom with meaning. This collection shares deep inner peace that the poet has discovered on her journeys—to a grandmother’s house in Greece,…
Review by Katy E. Ellis Joanna Streetly is a prize-winning Canadian poet and non-fiction writer who emigrated from Trinidad and has lived on the unceded territory of the Tla-o-qui-aht on Vancouver Island for the past thirty years. The poems…
Review by Tessara Dudley Singing from the Deep End is a powerful book of poetry about motherhood and life cycles. It is divided into three sections, each focused on the author’s relationships with the four people to whom the…
Review by Susan Blumberg-Kason Sometimes it takes near-death experiences for people to really start living. In Sharon White’s latest novel, Minato Sketches, Gigi, the protagonist, suffers a stroke and leaves her husband and grown sons behind when she moves…
Review by A. Anupama In this collection, Catherine Esposito Prescott’s poems trace the loss of her teenage son Austen to a rare, pediatric brain cancer. I read this collection in the time between Mother’s Day and my daughter’s high…
Review by Rebecca Jane wolves in shells rewilds the experience of reading poetry. This collection achieves narrative justice for battered women, abandoned women, wolves hunted as game, and domestic experience. Here, language repositions spaces we dwell in to alter…
Famished: On food, sex, and growing up as a good girl by Anna Rollins Review by Melanie McGehee In Famished: On Food, Sex, and Growing Up as a Good Girl, Anna Rollins examines the influences of purity culture and diet…