Review by Dallas Woodburn – It is safe to say I have never before read a book quite like Margo Berdeshevsky’s Beautiful Soon Enough, winner of the American Book Review/Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize. During the first few pages of…
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Review by Nancy Vona – The best books can be enjoyed over and over again. Kyle Potvin’s chapbook Sound Travels on Water is one such book: a satisfying collection of poems with nuances of meaning that emerge on subsequent readings. Potvin…
Review by Kathrine Yets – Everything comes down to the center of Tami Haaland’s collection When We Wake in the Night—the heart. No matter how hard I try, I am funneled there. The collection is divided into five sections—As Many…
Review by Linda McCauley Freeman – It’s been far too long since I’ve picked up a poetry book that I couldn’t put down. But from the opening poem in Still Life with Dirty Dishes, I knew I would not only…
Review by Zara Raab – Levi’s earlier books, Once I Gazed at You in Wonder, winner of the 1998 Walt Whitman Award, and Skyspeak (2005), give a large place to relationships: to a mother whose death she grieves and a…
Review by Carol Dorf Broken Narrative in Shira Dentz’ door of thin skins – At seventeen, my daughter and her friends call older men, by which they mean those past college age, who are interested in them, pedophiles. The middle-aged…
Review by Nancy Gerber – It’s a pleasure to dive into Robyn Hunt’s debut poetry collection, The Shape of Caught Water. In rhythmic, evocative language, these poems chart the rising swells and quiet pools of human relationships. A young girl…
Review by Jennifer Martelli – In “Wreck Things,” Jennifer Jean writes: ….My first step on water was for balance– my arms arced, clutching after the folds of those notes. The second step, for fright, caught me fast– divided between two…
Review by Ellen Miller-Mack – I may not be the best person to equate marriage to a sonnet, but I feel it nonetheless, in Amy Dryansky’s generous and lovely book, Grass Whistle. The speaker is rooted in a traditional family…
Review by Emily R. Blumenfeld – Through 48 poems interlinked with photographic “image poems” and “documentations”, Amy Sara Carroll locates her experience of motherhood simultaneously in private and public space. Fannie + Freddie/The Sentimentality of Post-9/11 Pornography is infused with…