Mar, 22 2012 | no responses
He doesn’t know you anymore. The hillside nursing home took his name. Scattered over the valley’s rooftops, it glitters off asphalt shingles in the heat. You’re here, in the hallway, too singular to grasp this dispersal. It won’t stop lapping over the lip of your cupped hands. You trip over your feet into the summer [...]
Mar, 19 2012 | no responses
Halfway through Roseate, Points of Gold, Laynie Browne appears to offer the key to decoding her often confounding ninth book of poems: “Attempts to record are ephemeral markings.” Browne’s prosody is appropriate to the textual layout of the collection: centered vignettes, whispers of ink against white space. Browne’s linguistic ancestry includes the physical motion poems [...]
Mar, 18 2012 | no responses
In Northerners, his second collection and winner of the 2010 Green Rose Prize in Poetry from Western Michigan University, Seth Abramson evokes and amalgamates these images while simultaneously composing poems that glow with immediate warmth, poems whose emotional language often complicates and occasionally contradicts outright the private worlds it creates.
Mar, 18 2012 | no responses
Compendium means a concise treatment of a vast subject, and this small volume (six inches by four inches, the size of a postcard) from Kristina Marie Darling is aptly named.
Factories Are Everywhere in Poetry Right Now
Nov, 18 2011 | no responses
Featured poetry from the Fall/Winter 2011 issue.
Nov, 18 2011 | no responses
Featured poetry from the Fall/Winter 2011 issue.