À Propos Ravens The Flying Raven, Édouard Manet, Ex Libris for The Raven (Le Corbeau) by Edgar Allan Poe, French Edition, Trans. Stéphane Mallarmé, (1875) You take the folding chair…
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Self-Reflection Apparently, St. Margaret was so pious that she was indigestible when the dragon tried to swallow her. The dragon didn’t want her, was repelled by her, and saw her…
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…
Editors’ Note: We are thrilled to present “Madwoman: A Forum on Shara McCallum’s Poetics.” Madwoman, McCallum’s fifth book (Alice James Press, 2017) is a tour de force. These poems pursue…
Cast Off Daniel Simon 62 pages Edwin E. Smith Publishing, September 24, 2015 ISBN: 978-0991090488 Reviewed by Hélène Cardona Daniel Simon’s Harvest of Words “Tilled into Existence” Daniel Simon’s rich…
Kanji Poems by David Galef World Poetry (2015) ISBN: 9781625491411 Reviewed by Willard Spiegelman How often does a new poetic type swim into our ken, arrive on the scene unannounced? When,…
Small Hours by Ilyse Kusnetz Truman State University Press, 2014 ISBN: 978-1612481289 Reviewed by Patrick Hicks Ilyse Kusnetz has been a finalist for such awards as the Stan and Tom…
Reviewed by Kyle Martindale With her most recent book Blood Lyrics, Katie Ford has risen to heavyweight status among the best of American poets. Her three books, Deposition, published in 2002;…
“i am seeking / the crucial region of the soul where response is pitted against intimately / implicated anteriors”
December 3, 2014 marked the end of this fall’s Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series with San Diego State University (SDSU) alumnus David Tomas Martinez whose first full-length poetry collection Hustle was published this year by Sarabande Books.