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…
Reviews
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…
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…
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…
Death of a Red-Tailed Hawk
by“The whole universe is aflame.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Le Milieu Mystique, (1917) I By midafternoon the hawk was ill and by…