Over the past few days, in shared taxis and before bed, I have read the first two books in Meg Elison’s Road to Nowhere trilogy which explores the former U.S. in the years after an autoimmune disease devastates the population,…
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Book Review: Egg Heaven by Robin Parks
Egg Heaven: Stories by Robin Parks October 2014 Shade Mountain Press 160 pp., ISBN: 978-0-9913555-0-1 Robin Parks links the stories of Egg Heaven through similar settings—the restaurants that give the pieces their names, with establishments briefly mentioned in one story…
Review: Lori A. May’s Square Feet
Love and loss, recovery and despair—the grand passions of traditional poetry do not take place in some rarefied other world. To write about ordinary life in domestic spaces does not exclude the ambition to depict these feelings. The poems of…
Review: The Middle by Angela Hume
Read my review of Angela Hume’s The Middle in the current issue of Poets’ Quarterly.
Review: This Assignment Is So Gay
In the summer issue of Poets’ Quarterly, I review the new anthology, This Assignment Is So Gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching, edited by Megan Volpert. Visit www.poetsquarterly.com to read my review and the rest of the issue. Related…
Why Poets Should Read Jamaica Kincaid’s See Now Then
The prose of Jamaica Kincaid’s See Now Then has a frustrated and frustrating music, the rhythm of minds trying to resolve the past and the present and memories that might be fantasies, likely are fantasies, or may be the future.…