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…
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Hallowed: New and Selected Poems By Patricia Fargnoli Tupelo Press, September 2017 ISBN-13: 978-1946482006 Reviewed by Z.G. Tomaszewski Reaching Toward What Shining We Are The poems in Patricia Fargnoli’s…
The Husband Poems Taken From Occasionally, I Remove Your Brain Through Your Nose: A Book of Poems Just Married Husband is food. I mean good or roof. Which husband? Men, women and…
The Republic of Užupis exists independently in the heart of Vilnius…a bohemian port with its own mermaid and angel…home to artists and vagrants, gentry, moonshine, ravens, one buzzard, and pigeons,…
On “The Obstacle Poems” The serial poem that follows, “The Obstacle Poems,” by Karl Patten—who invokes the poet’s most ancient role, that of speaking something into being—was written specifically to…
Hustle, Martinez’s debut collection released this year by Sarabande Books, has already received wide acclaim, winning honorable mention for the 2014 Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Literature Award.
As part of the “Occupy the Page: Literary Criticism and Activism” festival held March 18-20th, 2013, members of the San Diego State University community chose a poem or piece of…
Joudah’s debut collection of poetry, The Earth in the Attic (2008), won the 2007 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition and was a finalist for ForeWord’s Book of the Year Award. Joudah translated the final three collections of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish’s work in The Butterfly’s Burden (2006), which was a finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.