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…
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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…
Stained: an anthology of writing about menstruation Curators/Editors Rachel Neve-Midbar and Jennifer Saunders Review by Christine Stewart-Nuñez Scholar Andrea Lunsford describes predominant rhetorical features of women’s writing—across centuries—as breaking silence and naming in personal terms. These two features resonated…
Review by Catherine Hayes In her latest novel, Foundations, Abigail Stewart tells the story of three unique, individualistic women living in three separate eras of history who find their stories connected not only through the Dallas ranch house they…
Review by Jiwon Choi In Land Marks, Sharon Tracey’s third book of poetry, the poet has created a body of work that evokes what Robin Wall Kimmerer describes as the longing to live in a world made of gifts,…
Review by Laura Dennis When you hear “fragile objects,” what is the first thing that comes to mind? Do you think of valuables one keeps locked in a case lest they be destroyed, or does your mind immediately reach…
Review by Mary Ellen Talley Kate Reavey brings a sense of the circularity of seasons and motherhood in CURVE, her first full length poetry collection. The five sections of free verse encompass an arc of personal experiences: motherhood, parenting,…