Category: Reviews

Light in the River by David Lee Garrison is reviewed in Kirkus Reviews
David Lee Garrison’s latest book of poetry is given review in Kirkus. “Garrison’s latest poetry collection tackles a range of topics from animal companionship to grief. The book begins with a fable (“And Dog Said”) …

Review of David Giannini’s latest book of poetry The Dawn of Nothing Important
Bill Everhart reviews David Gianinni’s The Dawn of Nothing Important in the Berkshire Eagle. The Dawn of Nothing Important would seem to be an ironic way of titling one’s book, but poet David Giannini is …

David Giannini’s The Dawn of Nothing Important is featured in International Psychoanalysis
Poetry editor Irene Willis talks about David Giannini’s The Dawn of Nothing Important in International Psychoanalysis. Featuring three poems from the book. Good morning, everyone! We last featured David Giannini in 2011, but are welcoming …

Stephen Williams new book of poetry Earth Enough is reviewed in Restless Messengers
Earth Enough is reviewed by Brendan White in Restless Messengers. “Maybe I’m easy to please, but I like it when the first poem in a book of poems is actually on page 1. Such is …

Mike Templeton Reviews Wind Farm – Landscape With Stories and Towers by Jeff Gundy
In Jeff Gundy’s Wind Farm: Landscape with Stories and Towers, we get to travel from a nearly anonymous small rural town somewhere in the rural Midwest all the way to Alpha Centauri. We learn about …

The Stones of Lifta is reviewed in The Manhattan Review.
Rick Larious reviews the Stones of Lifta by Marc Kaminsky in The Manhattan Review. “We would call it a ghost town. Lifta is a village of stone homes on a steep hill outside the gates …

Gary Metras’s Vanishing Points is reviewed in the Daily Hamphire Gazette
Steve Pfarrer reviews Gary Metras’s book of poems Vanishing Points in the Daily Hampshire Gazette. “Gary Metras, Easthampton’s first poet laureate, has long made the natural world a central part of his poems, including the woods, fields …

5 Short Reviews of Dos Madres Books
Five Dos Madres books are reviewed by Alan Catlin in Misfit Magazine. George Kalamaras, We Slept the Animal: Letters from the American West Kalamaras picks up where Richard Hugo left off in 31 Letters and 13 Dreams. …

Many to Remember by Rachel Kauffman is reviewed in the online journal Tablet
Jake Marmer reviews Rachel Kauffman’s Many to Remember in the online journal Tablet. Poetry and history can seem like perfect foils. History aims toward precision and accuracy; poetry tends to favor ambiguity and subjectivity. If …

Daniel Shapiro’s Child With A Swan’s Wings is reviewed in American Book Review
Elizabeth Cohen reviews Daniel Shapiro’s Child With A Swan’s Wings in the May/June 2020 issue of American Book Review. Oh, to be the poet Daniel Shapiro! The whimsical narrative poems in Child with a Swan’s …