Thinking in Circles
byReading the new selected poems of Wanda Coleman, Wicked Enchantment (Black Sparrow Press, 2020), at the same time as Kristi Carter’s new collection Aria…
Book Review
The Rich Life of Objects in Elliott Colla and Ganzeer’s “We Are All Things”
byWe Are All Things, a graphic chapbook written by Elliott Colla and illustrated and designed by Ganzeer, luxuriates in the inner life of objects,…
Sacred Time
byA Review of The Dream of Reason (Copper Canyon) by Jenny George The Dream of Reason’s opening poem, “Origins of Violence,” recounts a narrative…
What We Talk About When We Talk About Men
byA review of 24 Hours of Men (Dancing Girl Press & Studio) by Lisa L. Moore “Here’s my love for that loss,” Lisa L….
Lay Hands
byA review of Touched (Sibling Rivalry Press) by Luther Hughes It is one of the peculiarities of language that a single phrase can often…
Ears to Hear
byA Review of Acadiana (Black Lawrence Press) by Nancy Reddy Writing informed by geography tends to stake two kinds of claims: the claims we…
Handful of Fire
byA Review of Revisions (Sibling Rivalry Press) by Eric Tran ‘empty me out,’ Eric Tran writes at the end of his gorgeous poem, “How…
Country Music
byA Review of Tunsiya Amrikiya (Bull City Press, 2018) by Leila Chatti National identity, when not summoned for fatuous patriotism, can spur great poetry….
Review: “Ecology, Virtue, and Ethics: An Introduction to Christian Environmentalism”
byEcology, Virtue, and Ethics: An Introduction to Christian Environmentalism Kathryn D. Blanchard and Kevin J. O’Brien Waco, Baylor University Press, 2014. 220 pp. $35.96….