Ethel Rackin’s The Forever Notes consists of three sections, “Notes,” “Pictures,” and “Songs,” all of which focus, stylistically and/or thematically, on the notion of activity within containment. The nineteen poems in “Notes” primarily address active containment stylistically, specifically utilizing un-capitalized titles, brevity, and repetition to striking effect.
One of the most striking features is Van Landingham’s ability to collapse massive distances within a few lines…
As a whole, Kornberg-Weiss’s impulse is to emphasize the relation of one’s purview of histories past and possible with the present moment.
This collection shows us how the poem’s purpose isn’t to contain or reflect or make sense of the world, but to be the edge that the world spills over.
Morrison’s Beyond the Chainlink is a beautifully written collection, as philosophical as it is concrete and carefully grounded. A lovely addition to this writer’s already accomplished body of work.
Ascension Theory, Christopher Bolin’s debut collection, is a negotiation between the poetics of knowing and unknowing.
Ultimately, how we stand, how we inhabit space and what we touch in this realm become Ronk’s preoccupations—with the final caveat that doing so is merely temporary.
Bartone reveals the contemporary prose poem as inextricable from haiku, haibun, and the spare, image-driven lyrics of the early Modernists.
Imagine this scene from The Bad Seed: two ladies drooping, lily-like, in a nineteen-fifties living room. No pillow is out of place. Each woman is devastated. Hortense Daigle because her little boy was killed, the other woman because her little girl murdered him. Mrs. Daigle is liquored up good. She exits her grief long enough […]
Now I recognize everyone I have ever seen. For instance, on the walk over here I heard two men discussing how hot one of them was one night—the one man thought the other was very hot but the hot-that-night man didn’t think he was at his hottest. I saw one man walking while holding a […]