Fossils In The Making
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The Micro-Essay Series on First Books was conceived as a way to give readers and writers a look behind the curtain, to see how...
In The Waking Green Undergrass
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Not Into the Blossoms and Not Into the Air (Parlor Press, 2019) by Elizabeth Jacobson Winner of the 2017 New Measure Poetry Prize...
Seeing With Alchemy Eyes
byAlchemy for Cells and Other Beasts (Entre Ríos Books, 2017) by Maya Jewell Zeller and Carrie DeBacker Halfway through Maya Jewell Zeller and Carrie…
Shutter Impulse
byThe EcoTheo Review is delighted to feature visual art from photographer Jon Leatherwood. His artist statement reminds us of the spontaneity of creative work,…
Environment And Ritual
byThe Gathering Song (Finishing Line Press, 2018) by Christina Xiong “The land spirits are exhausted and starving,” writes Christina Xiong in her debut poetry…
Our Irrevocable Needs
byBarnburner (Elixir Press, 2018) by Erin Hoover “Barnburner is not your grandfather’s apple orchard,” the introduction to Barnburner states, and this was as good…
Filth And Glory
byWITCH by Rebecca Tamás (Penned in the Margins, 2019) In her debut collection, WITCH, Rebecca Tamás explores history, language, nature and the body through the lens…
A Streak of Blood on a Long Skinny Fjord
byWaitress in Fall by Kristín Ómarsdóttir, translated from the Icelandic by Vala Thorodds and published by Carcanet / Partus Press, 2018 It is a…
Tension Sustained
byThe Poem’s Country: Place and Poetic Practice (Pleiades, 2017) edited by Shara Lessley and Bruce Snider Though the mountain has been fixed in place…
Outside the Word Balloon
byfor Bill BerksonCandid paths crossingThis way and thatAn iron-on winter rain Jackknifes through the treesEffortless smileSuch capable handsSublime scribble Bending the windTurrets of excessOverlook…
Broken Systems, Broken Lines: On Three Chapbooks
byWhite: An Abstract by Joy Katz Abstract, by definition: Adjective existing in thought or by definition but not having a physical or concrete existence…
Breaking Boundaries, Healing Climates
byBoundaries (dancing girl press & studio, 2017) by Erin Coughlin Hollowell and Little Climates (Bull City Press, 2018) by L.A. Johnson Hollowell’s Boundaries is…
Capturing the Landscape
byThe EcoTheo Review is delighted to welcome Billy Moore as its new visual arts editor. Billy has an M.F.A. from the University of Colorado…
WE CAN IMAGINE IMPOSSIBILITY OR WE CAN READ WOMEN: 25 Poetry Collections
byThe year 2018 marks the halfway point through one of the most misogynistic presidencies in American history. This year was equally full of women’s…
Between Becoming
byA Review of Eve Luckring’s The Tender Between that Begins and Ends Nearly as Many Times as the Book Has Sections Ornithopter Press, 2018…
Four Haikus
byI. she stalks the sunrise sees what hides undercover light breaks dark again II. what we have is rare a friend, cloud held mid-air,…
Harvest Season
byharvest season hello moonshine midnight once again. i find your cold skin searching for my own flesh in this passage of spring time. deep…
A Bloody Mess
byBetty Sue is fixing a roast, in honor of Wynette who died last Tuesday. The meal will be a stick-to-your-ribs affair—beef with potatoes and…
Seeds & Seasons
byAnemochory (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2016) and Season of Dares (Bull City Press, 2018) by Leah Silvieus Leah Silvieus’s first chapbook, Anemochory, takes its title…
Sorrow the Past
byA review of I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (University of Pittsburgh Press) by Tiana Clark As Adrienne Rich suggested, “in…