Review by Richard Hoffman “What you write about chooses you.” — Barbara Helfgott Hyett Eric Hyett’s Aporia is a chronicle of a year spent helping his mother and himself to accept a diagnosis — and more, the reality — of…
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Review by Carole Mertz William Carlos Williams wrote in Spring and All (in 1923) that the heavy process of creating anew “begins to near a new day.” Of all the volumes mothers have written about their children and their…
Review by Ruth Hoberman Mary Morris’s most recent book of poems—her third—draws its title from Rembrandt’s “late self-portraits”—three paintings he did in the years preceding his 1669 death at the age of 63. At the time, he had lost…
Review by Jennifer Martelli Colleen Michaels invites us into a world of sweet, fatty foods, illusion, and games of chance, where we might land at Foxwoods Casino, Paragon Park, Coney Island, or perhaps, a local bakery to buy blueberry…
Review by Lisa C. Taylor Winner of the 2020 Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award, Flutter, Kick is a taut new collection that vaults between a Zenlike focus on moments, and meanderings that alter what is seen. Divided into four sections, the…
Review by Yvonne Higgins Leach Katy Ellis’ book-length prose poem Home Water, Home Land has all the ingredients that make for an engaging read: inspiring settings, unexpected turns, and character growth. I read the book in one sitting, turning…
Review by Olivia Kate Cerrone In the title poem that opens Julia Lisella’s latest collection, Our Lively Kingdom, the lived life that was once familiar is “now broken into village plots that others love to visit.” Reshaped by grief,…
Reborn of Secrets and Teeth: A Review of Kimberly Ann Priest’s Slaughter the One Bird by Jessica L. Walsh There will be diseased houses, God tells Moses and Aaron in Leviticus, before recounting to them the complex steps needed to…
Review by Emily Webber We all feel fear, and many of us are plagued by irrational fears that live in the deepest parts of us, the ones we never talk about with other people. If I let myself, I can…
Review by Laura Dennis One does not soon forget a book that alliteratively offers a “huge, homosexual umbrella,” not just once, but three times, each framed a little differently, in a single poem. Indeed, the title of said poem,…