The Simple Vocabulary of Grief
The Child Who by Jeanne Benameur, translated by Bill Johnston | Reviewed by Jaclyn Youhana Garver
Reviews
Identity Is Not Destination
New-Generation African Poets: A Chapbook Box Set (Saba), edited by Kwame Dawes and Chris Abani | Reviewed by Brent Ameneyro
‘Forgive us, history’
Index of Haunted Houses by Adam O. Davis | Alonso Llerena looks inside this debut collection
Pandemic Poetry
Four Quartets: Poetry in the Pandemic, edited by Kristina Marie Darling & Jeffrey Levine | Reviewed by Alexa T. Dodd
After the Wreckage of Words
Pulling the Invisible but Heavy Cart: Last Poems by Peter Everwine | Reviewed by Alexander Long
The Red Years: A Review by Sarah Katsiyiannis
The Red Years: Forbidden Poems from Inside North Korea is a collection of piercing poems from the author Bandi, who writes under the pseudonym that means “firefly.”
The Broken Face: A Review by Marvelyn Rowe Bucky
In award-winning Canadian poet Russell Thornton’s The Broken Face, he expertly intertwines themes of memory and place with the metaphysical and natural world, often through deeply personal portraits of his own family and experiences. In “Sirens” the speaker’s tiny son is excited by the sound of a fire truck blaring below their apartment window: “wild …
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Mistress: A Review by Maya Carter
Chet’la Sebree, in her premier collection, Mistress, offers an astonishing parallel between the 19th and 21st-century woman and the challenges of navigating Black womanhood at the intersection of men, sexuality, and self-actualization. She creates a speaker born of the innermost thoughts of both Sally Hemings, the slave and alleged mistress of Thomas Jefferson, and herself …
The Galleons: A Review by Paula Stacey
In this online post for the Poetry Society of America, Rick Barot reflects on one of the poems in his collection, The Galleons, noting how it is “ostensibly about one thing–the lilacs of spring” but how it also contains what he calls, “a strange cargo.” The poem in question is “The Names” and the strange …