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…
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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…
Review by Teresa Tumminello Brader Hollay Ghadery is the author of a memoir, Fuse, recipient of a Canadian Bookclub Award for Nonfiction/Memoir; a collection of poetry, Rebellion Box; and, most recently, a short-fiction collection, Widow Fantasies (Gordon Hill Press,…
Review by Lisa M. Hase-Jackson Deborah Leipziger’s first full-length collection, Story and Bone, brims with the lyric enthusiasm of one intrigued with word play and musicality as it follows the long tradition of mining one’s own life for inspiration.…