Poem for the New Year My daughter said she would go outside her comfort zone, would pull the string on…
Browsing: poetry
Instructions for Motherhood Gut the herring. Cover your body in ash. Thorn with the blood that grows from the roses.…
Winter Baby Tell me the truth, I said to my friend, who had just given birth. How bad is it?…
Sunflowers Just inside the gate, the rise and fall of dying sunflowers: disheveled petals and downcast eyes. Then a flick…
Review by Anne Britting Oleson “For in that sleep…what dreams may come,” said Hamlet. He was speaking of death,…
Review by Margaret Rozga Award-winning poet Jane Satterfield’s fourth collection Apocalypse Mix differs in range, tone, and form from the…
Aleppo in the Heart of the Living Room Every soul needs a proper chaperone to say nothing of a champion.…
Origami I’ve read about women who say they can’t write New mothers, their arms a cramped night, crescent They hold…
Review by Hannah Cohen A beautiful book centered upon the knowns and the unknowns of being human, Margaret McCarthy’s…
Review by Barbara Harroun Joelle Biele’s Broom, recipient of the 2013 Bordighera Poetry Prize, studies life with such microscopic precision…