The Low Pouring Stars
About my book, The Low Pouring Stars….When I cannot talk I write, talking again. I don’t know.The image of a heart under a glacier—the ancient frozen person, undetected eons—still there—how did they...
View ArticleCrown
Reading Joanna Penn Cooper’s new collection of poems, Crown, is a lot like sticking your head out the window of a fast moving car: it’s exhilarating, turbulent, and a wee bit dangerous. Let’s go!...
View ArticleScarlight
In the twenty four, beautifully-nuanced poems of Scarlight, Zachary Greenberg shares his complex vision for our spiritually-challenged times. Whether his topic is personal alienation in the digital...
View ArticleSlower Than Stars
Taking up where A Mnemonic for Desire left off, with a song “forming out of nothing,” Steve Mueske’s second collection, Slower than Stars, is by turns playful, irreverent, surreal, and deeply lyrical....
View ArticleIn the State I’m In
Rantala is a Pacific Northwest poet, heavily affected by indigenous art, the weather, the formerly ungentrified personalities of cities up and down the Pacific coast, but not regionally bound. Here...
View ArticleKatana
The first American translation of this fine poetry collection by Marie Étienne, centered on the French experience in Indochina (Vietnam), first appearing in book form in the Lumière ouverte series of...
View Articleby Land…
John Burgess first intersected with the Lewis & Clark Trail at Three Forks in 1978 when working as the third man on a three-man survey crew in the Gallatin Valley of Montana. Since then, he has...
View ArticleThe Orphans of Thor Street
“Lovely, clever and strange,” a full-color art book documenting assemblages made from items found in thrift stores, reminiscent of Cornell, but largely emerging from the framing box — given titles and...
View ArticleFlorid Victorian Ornament
If A.E. Housman could publish Last Poems while he was still quite alive, why can’t Renner release Florid Victorian Ornament in the 21st century? Forty poems–fully thirty percent of them entitled...
View ArticleVariations in an Emergency
Featuring a cover image by Robert Motherwell and distantly inspired by the structure of J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Variations in an Emergency is a poetic sequence about the way longing and loss...
View ArticleAcceptable Time
Tom Moore quotes Carl Jung’s description of a symbol as also a good definition of a true poem: a bridge ...
View ArticleFingers Leak Their Way to the Heart
After his dad’s death, Philip Quinn inherited a large collection of photographs including a photo album created by his grandmother ...
View Articleelse as soons
In his third book from Ravenna, Gregory K. Cole writes some of his most emotive poetry. His style of tight poetry plumbs for the soul of words in their combinations.Says Cooper Renner: The emphasis...
View ArticleDaphne and Her Discontents
A significant volume of poems exploring self through the Classic myths, transferring to poetry the power to transform. Per Robbi Nester: ”By giving her family saga this form, the poet subverts a...
View ArticleThe Geese in Logic
Intriguing poems arising like white geese from an abandoned apple orchard in the east Cascade mountains. Per Donald Revell (Colorado Review): Deep amid the din and barrenness of old, old voices, we...
View Article3 Letters & Julius
Starting out with three poems based on letters from Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, from James Agee to Father Flye, from an unknown Finn with an unpronounceable last name to Bertrand Russell, the...
View ArticleThe Scene You See
The Scene You See is Joannie Stangeland’s third full-length poetry collection, lyrical poems reflected and enhanced by an immersion in ...
View ArticleScrap; on Louise Nevelson
Poetic investigations of the art of Louise Nevelson and the fraught issue of being artist and mother simultaneously — Gard illuminates each at the same time, attracting us to both. Day GridIn lower...
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