Octogenarian Sips Glass Half-Full When I walk down the street, a stream of smiles rolls towards me like a school…
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We Women Three “Oh no,” my daughter and I gulped in unison as we saw the slack elastic of my…
An Interview by J.P. Howard, MER VOX Editor-at-Large, of Mireya Perez-Bustillo and Patsie Alicia Ifill I’ve been thinking a lot…
The Mother Dispossessed Curator: Patricia Brody Featured Poets Srividya Kannan Ramachandran Elisabeth Frischauf Esther Cohen Ellen C. Goldberg Lisa J Cihlar…
Review by Bunny Goodjohn It is hard not to feel something of the voyeur when interacting with the short-run chapbook…
Review by Barbara Ellen Sorensen In Les Fauves, Barbara Crooker gracefully achieves the daunting task of creating ekphrastic poetry that…
Review by Grace Gardiner The title of Judy Kronenfeld’s fourth full-length collection Bird Flying through the Banquet alludes to a metaphor…
Review by Jennifer Martelli Field Guide to Autobiography is a mingling of sound, disintegration, and copulation, using the gorgeous Latinate…
Review by Christine Salvatore Music sets the tone for Lori Desrosiers’ second full collection of poetry, Sometimes I Hear the…
Heaven Halloween was my mother’s favorite holiday. My youngest brother was quite a pro gathering candy and money at a…