PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry 2017 Utah Book Award for poetry 2016 Poets and Writers Top Debut Poets 2015 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award NACCS-Tejas Foco Best Poetry Book of 2015 Ninth in the Mountain West Poetry Series, edited by Stephanie G’Schwind & Donald Revell From undocumented men named Angel, to angels falling […]
Read More - The Verging Cities
Both Bashaw and Smith are important, though under-appreciated, poets…both complicate and enliven our understanding of the increasingly dire relationship between poetry and, since poetry too is a breathing thing, the habitat in which it lives.
Read More - The Whole Field Still Moving Inside It; Almanac
What are we paying in moral capital, Roderick wants to know, for an easy life in the suburbs? And most troubling, what if we have—or he has—willingly exchanged morality for comfort?
Read More - The Americans; The Tribute Horse
I have called the book a poetic treatise, but in effect, it is more an inquiry into our particular hearts; to me, that is the essential function of poetry.
Read More - O, Heart
These are frightening, moving, deeply human poems—poems such as these are sorely needed.
Read More - To See the Queen
With that in mind, McCrae’s Forgiveness Forgiveness is a highly accomplished and moving collection of poetry. This is a stunning follow up to an already accomplished body of work.
Read More - Forgiveness Forgiveness
Being made aware of the body is absolutely crucial to Conrad’s praxis, as he calls it, because this is where our memory resides.
Read More - Ecodeviance: (Soma)tics for the Future Wilderness
Gallaher is a master of moving from punchlines to moments of real gravity. Cultural references abound in the book, and I could have chosen any one of them as an example. Gallaher’s book is about so many things that his axiom about life in general—“We decide with our attention what has meaning / and what doesn’t”—applies to his book as well.
Read More - In a Landscape
Smirou takes the possessive pride of appropriation, or rather, personalization, of a historical figure: in this case Florentine Lorenzo de Medici, an Italian statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance: a magnate, diplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists, and poets, most notably Botticelli and Michelangelo.
Read More - My Lorenzo
However, The New Testament is not entirely a poetry of witness, either. Made all the more vital by the violence and racial tensions we see daily on the evening news, Brown’s poems position him somewhere between recorder and controller.
Read More - The New Testament