News Literary News Update 7 16 Jan 202521 Jan 2025 Recent Poetry Publications: "Cut and Chiseled Stone" in EcoTheo Review (October 2023) "Cream-n-Green" in The Coop: A Poetry Cooperative (March 2023) Forthcoming Poetry Publications: "Game to Get Through" is forthcoming…
Book Reviews… A Palestinian Voice in Gaza, A Review of Mosab Abu Toha’s “Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear” 16 Jan 2025 (Review published here in The Rumpus, March 2024) Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha’s first poetry collection, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear (City Lights Books: San Francisco, California,…
Book Reviews… As with Vigor, As with Pain, a Review of Lara Egger’s “How to Love Everyone and Almost Get Away with It” 12 Aug 2023 (Review published here in The Rumpus, July 2023) Richard Hugo in his seminal essay "The Triggering Town" writes, "Most poets write the same poem over and over. Wallace Stevens was…
Book Reviews… Review of Akwaeke Emezi’s Content Warning: Everything 12 Aug 2023 (Review published here in Colorado Review, July 2023) At one point in their debut poetry book, Content Warning: Everything, New York Times best-selling author Akwaeke Emezi (they/them) is "a…
Book Reviews… Through Our Water Like Fingers, a Review of Millicent Borges Accardi’s “Quarantine Highway” 12 Aug 202312 Aug 2023 (Review published here in South 85 Journal, July 2023) Ideological, sentimental, or unfocused urgency are just some of the challenges to overcome when creating poetry about a collective tragedy, especially…
Book Reviews… Lyrical Edginess, a Review of Jake Skeets’ “Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers” 25 Mar 2022 This review is not online... "Lyrical Edginess, a Review of Jake Skeets' Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers in Tar River Poetry, Volume 61, Number 1, fall 2021,…
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