Gary Metras’s new book of poems, Counting Bricks is reviewed in Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene
Counting Bricks by Gary Metras is reviewed by Dennis Daly in Boston Areas Small Press and Poetry Scene. “Mnemonic sentiment, boiled down to its essential, tear-charged elements, cannot be ignored. It drives human nature. It …
Reviewed: Rhina Espaillat’s For Instance and David Katz’s The Biographer in New Verse Review
In this semiquincentennial year, one national treasure we can all be grateful for is the Dominican-born American poet Rhina Espaillat. Both a prodigy (at fifteen, she published in Ladies’ Home Journal) and a late-bloomer (her muse …
Michael Templeton Reviews Vignettes of Forces by Lucien Zell
In reading Lucien Zell’s Vignettes of Forces, we have access to all the conventions that could guide our understanding of the poems. Personification and anthropomorphism will immediately present themselves, but neither of these terms will …
David Giannini’s Lamp of Whispers is reviewed in London Grip Poetry Review
Charles Rammelkamp reviews David Giannini’s Lamp of Whispers – New and Selected Prosepoems in the journal London Grip Poetry Review. David Giannini’s Thoreauvian meditations range from observations about the lives of cats (“Mina & Maya,” “Mina & Plato”), through …
Even-Turn by Grace Curtis is reviewed in Rhino
Catheryn Essinger reviews Even-Turn by Grace Curtis in the online journal Rhino. Grace Curtis has a talent for slipping deftly between a topic and our assumptions about it. In her new volume, Even-Turn, her third …
The Biographer by David M. Katz is reviewed in Able Muse magazine
Rachel Hadas reviews The Biographer by David M. Katz in Able Muse Magazine “As the title of his new book promises, David M. Katz is fascinated by life writing. He’s also an avid lover of poetry …
A Day in the Republic by Tim Suermondt is reviewed in the Boston Area. Small Press and Poetry Scene
Dennis Daly reviews Tim Surmondt’s A Day in the Republic In the Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene. “Retying a shoelace in poetic terms can make all the difference. Tim Suermondt in his new …
A Prayer of Six Wings by Owen Lewis is reviewed in Sage Journals
Robert C. Abrams reviews A Prayer of Six Wings by Owen Lewis in Sage Journals. In his latest collection of poems, A Prayer of Six Wings, Owen Lewis works his way through successive stages of shock and mourning following …
Three Dos Madres Press books reviewed by Dan Raphael in Unlikely Stories
Blood Vertigo by Ralph La Charity, As Blood is the Fruit of the Heart: A Book of Spells by John Bradley, and The Rain That Doesn’t Reach the Ground by George Kalamaras is reviewed by Dan …