Review by Lisa C. Taylor Winner of the 2020 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award, Flutter, Kick is a taut new collection that vaults between a Zenlike focus on moments, and meanderings that alter what is seen. Divided into four sections, the…
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Review by Yvonne Higgins Leach Katy Ellis’ book-length prose poem Home Water, Home Land has all the ingredients that make for an engaging read: inspiring settings, unexpected turns, and character growth. I read the book in one sitting, turning…
Review by Olivia Kate Cerrone In the title poem that opens Julia Lisella’s latest collection, Our Lively Kingdom, the lived life that was once familiar is “now broken into village plots that others love to visit.” Reshaped by grief,…
Reborn of Secrets and Teeth: A Review of Kimberly Ann Priest’s Slaughter the One Bird by Jessica L. Walsh There will be diseased houses, God tells Moses and Aaron in Leviticus, before recounting to them the complex steps needed to…
Review by Emily Webber We all feel fear, and many of us are plagued by irrational fears that live in the deepest parts of us, the ones we never talk about with other people. If I let myself, I can…
Review by Laura Dennis One does not soon forget a book that alliteratively offers a “huge, homosexual umbrella,” not just once, but three times, each framed a little differently, in a single poem. Indeed, the title of said poem,…
Review by Mindy Kronenberg In an interview in Literary Mama this past spring with editor Christina Consolino, Allison Blevins shared “As a mom, I have to sneak in moments to write. I write while sitting at a stoplight, pumping…
Review by Claudia Putnam In the title poem of this debut collection, the speaker’s father has a saying: Since the house is burning, let us warm ourselves. The house is surely burning. We may be frightened, but there’s comfort…
Review by DeMisty D. Bellinger An ABD (all-but-done with dissertation) doctoral student absent of motivation, an artistic worker trapped in a corporate job and craving motherhood, and a yoga instructor seeking the good in all make up main characters…
Review by Lara Lillibridge You ask any four-year-old what they want to be when they grow up, and the answers are relatively predictable: doctor, teacher, firefighter, astronaut, veterinarian … […] My honest, doe-eyed reply? I wanted to be a…