Inside a Crisis: A Review of Danger Days by Catherine Pierce and Requisite by Tanya Holtland
“We are inside a crisis of planetary scale and so too is our grieving, or our anger, and our response…” —Tanya Holtland, preface to…
Thinking in Circles
Reading the new selected poems of Wanda Coleman, Wicked Enchantment (Black Sparrow Press, 2020), at the same time as Kristi Carter’s new collection Aria…
The Fragile Human: a review of Tess Taylor’s Rift Zone and Last West, Roadsongs for Dorothea Lange
“Whose fault // our fault” the poem “Three Dreams, 2018” opens. Tess Taylor’s fourth collection of poems, Rift Zone, tenders to her reader the…
We Learn the Names: a Review of Kathryn Nuernberger’s Rue
In her essay “Upstream,” Mary Oliver offers her reader a scenario of a mind oriented towards (and in, and through) nature: “When the chesty,…
Wonder and Truth
Pricking by Jessica Cuello. Tiger Bark Press, 2016. 73 pages. $16.95. I. In Jessica Cuello’s first two full-length collections of poetry, the historical past...
Listening to Trees, Tides and Song in the Anthropocene
“Seems the only thing saving me / these days is trees,” writes Marjorie Moorhead in her debut chapbook Survival: Trees, Tides, Song (FLP, 2019)….
Attention To A Shared, Burning World
Reading M. Stone’s limited-edition chapbook In Wildness and Knox Gardner’s full-length, collaborative art text Woodland alongside each other recalled for me Georgia O’Keeffe’s profound...
Belonging To The Environment
Rosarium (Acre Books, 2018) by Hannah Dow “What Is the Body,” the first poem in Hannah Dow’s debut Rosarium, both asks and suggests: if...
In The Waking Green Undergrass
Not Into the Blossoms and Not Into the Air (Parlor Press, 2019) by Elizabeth Jacobson Winner of the 2017 New Measure Poetry Prize...
Environment And Ritual
The Gathering Song (Finishing Line Press, 2018) by Christina Xiong “The land spirits are exhausted and starving,” writes Christina Xiong in her debut poetry…