Review by Mindy Kronenberg Waking to Brevity is a testament to love, life, and how the poet and her husband came to terms with the encroachment of his Parkinson’s Disease. Sarah W. Bartlett has created a touching, brave, and…
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Review by Lara Lillibridge The Presence of Absence: Kitchen table talks about parenting, leaving fundamentalism, and the very messy business of living with loss by Desiree Richter Desiree Richter is a musician, research instructor and dissertation consultant who…
Review by Judy Kaber A scholar and a prolific writer, Claire Millikin’s ninth book of poetry, Magicicada (Unicorn Press, 2024), reflects her continuing feminist stance. In it she examines the fate of girls and young women who grow up…
Review by Ruth Hoberman Joan Kwon Glass’s first full-length collection of poems, Night Swim, was steeped in the grief of having lost to suicide first her young nephew, then her sister. This second collection, Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms,…
Review by Sarah W. Bartlett In her debut chapbook, Nina Prater shares a series of simple pleasures, moments, and their simple lessons. Again and again and again. Often, when asked to assemble a collection of poems, I seek the…
Review by Carole Mertz Composed around its title’s theme, Braving the Body formed when Editor Callihan addressed the issue of her breast cancer in 2020. After she issued This Strange Garment (Terrapin Books, 2023), she felt the urge to…
Review by Lara Lillibridge DeMisty D. Bellinger’s short story collection, All Daughters Are Awesome Everywhere, just released by University of Nebraska Press, won the Barbara DiBernard Award, an annual prize for a book published by Zero Street and named…
Review by Celia Jeffries This is the first book I have read that opens with a Content Warning. I should not have been surprised; we live in a world where the evening news should come with a content warning.…
Review by Sarah Walker Caron I never considered myself a feminist. Even as I parented outside the confines of what mother is “supposed” to look like, I didn’t apply feminism to what I was doing. That all changed when…
MER Bookshelf – September 2024 Curated by Melissa Joplin Higley Jennifer Lang, Landed: A yogi’s memoir in pieces & poses, Vine Leaves Press, October 2024, creative nonfiction (memoir) American-born Jennifer traces her journey—both on and off the yoga mat—reckoning…