A review of Rachel Galvin’s Elevated Threat Level. Green Lantern Press, 2018. In a recent interview with the Los Angeles Review of Books, Rachel Galvin argues, “Poetry, like journalism, is…
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Beyond Time and Place: A Review of Where the Light is Violet by Xánath Caraza reviewed by Arthur Kayazakian I was supposed to write this book review a year and…
My Stunt Double, by Travis Denton reviewed by J.G. McClure Travis Denton’s latest poetry collection, My Stunt Double (C&R Press 2018) shows a poet grappling with what beauty might mean in…
The Fire Lit & Nearing by J.G. McClure. Brooklyn, New York: Indolent Books May 2018. 78 pages. $14.99, paper. Whenever I encounter a new volume of poetry, I open…
The Art of Disorder in Heidi Seaborn’s Give a Girl Chaos (see what she can do) by Michelle Bitting January 28, 2019 One must still have chaos in oneself to…
“Between Risk and Refuge”: a review of A Cry in the Snow and other poemsby Stella Vinitchi Radulescu, translated by Luke Hankins by José Angel Araguz Reading Stella…
Life in Suspension / La Vie Suspendue by Hélène Cardona Salmon Press, 2016 Reviewed by Alison Williams If a purpose of poetry is to transcend, then Hélène Cardona’s…
FORGIVE THE BODY THIS FAILURE Blas Falconer (Four Way Books, 2018) Much has been written about the necessity and even the benefits of learning how to fail. Tragedy in the…
BIRNAM WOOD El Bosque de Birnam by José Manuel Cardona Tr. by Hélène Cardona Salmon Press, 2018 ISBN: 978-1-912561-18-6 The late José Manuel Cardona, star poet of Ibiza, scholar,…
xamissa by Henk Rossouw Fordham University Press Reviewed by Keenan Colditz “In the city begin and begin again sleep’s graffiti” —Henk Rossouw xamissa, by Henk Rossouw, is a book length…