Review by Jessica Manack The Japanese practice of kintsugi has been much-referenced over the last years. Referring to a repair technique in which cracked ceramic ware is reassembled with glue and paint, often brilliantly golden or silver, the emphasis…
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Review by Sherre Vernon I don’t know if it’s because Jessica L. Walsh shares my grandmother’s maiden name, or if it was her opening line: “My first found kin were killers” (1), but she had me from the…
New Poetry Books of Note Francesca Bell, What Small Sound. Red Hen Press 2023. Francesca Bell’s second collection of poems, What Small Sound, interrogates what it means to be a mother in a country where there are five times…
Review by Jennifer Pons Rebecca Foust’s seventh book of poetry, entitled Only (2022), investigates the fleshy corporeality of woman, mother, and citizen. With accomplished craft, intelligence, and vision, the collection traverses the acts of remembering and reflection, revealing the universalities…
Review by Melissa Ridley Elmes Connie Post’s poetry has been published in over 60 venues including the American Journal of Poetry, Atticus Review, Boston Literary Magazine, Crab Creek Review and Toronto Quarterly. Her first full-length collection, Floodwater, was the…
Recent Releases in Poetry and Memoir Mary Buchinger Bodwell, Navigating the Reach. Salmon Poetry, 2023 “How does one learn / to navigate the reach / its treacherous rocks?” asks Mary Buchinger in the title poem of her new collection. The “reach” she…
Review by Emily Webber Jessica Jopp’s novel, From the Longing Orchard, is an intimate portrayal of a woman coming of age during the 60’s and 70’s. As the novel opens, Sonya lives in the suburbs of New York with…
Review by Rona Luo Catherine Esposito Prescott’s debut poetry collection Accidental Garden is lush with natural life — raccoons manipulating garden hoses, pelicans crashing into the ocean, drooping palm tree fronds and judgmental peahens. The wildlife of tropical Florida,…
Review by Christy Lee Barnes In her new poetry collection, Psalms of Unknowing, Heather Lanier examines motherhood, spirituality, and grief. Lanier has previously published two chapbooks and the memoir Raising a Rare Girl. The second poem of the collection,…
Review by Anne Kaier In this splendid series of poems, MaryAnn L. Miller charts the lives of two of her foremothers: her own mother, Mafalda Curzi from Western Pennsylvania and Princess Mafalda of the Italian royal family who died…