In Catherine Carter’s latest chapbook, the poet considers the world beyond the surface: the lives of microbes, housekeepers, and history; tendrils of magic in both blessings and curses; and the magnetism of love, gin, sorrow, and the dark, …
“Here the poet sings to ‘the congress of spotted turtles on a log,’ while ‘cats track sunbeams around the house’ and somewhere above us ‘the swirling eye of August, silent at its center, / contains whole flocks of birds.’ Magical things happen …
“Myth from the field where the fox runs with its tail on fire is a book of grit, of faith, of wondrous creaturely light.In this chapbook I found a voice burning with the kind of questions I did …
“Violeta Orozco offers a deep range of poetic sensibilities inside of plain talk and personal brown body politic. Stillness in the Land of Speed allows us to inhale the Atlantic and wade with the wisdom inside Yemaya’s skirt …
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In Speak Now This Charm, Deborah Bogen creates a mosaic from states of mind we all experience, but are trained to ignore. Or forget. Or devalue. She records what is visible and what is positioned …
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“Raw and plainspoken, heartbreaking yet humorous, this book is free of even the slightest hint of poetry-posturing. ‘I learned how to take care / of people from taking care of you I thought …
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What if we all spoke the same language? What if making up words were an art form? Tina Kelley takes delight in new words that enfold meanings in compact, elegant packages, and she revels in …
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“…obsessive, inventive, mysterious, lyrical, horrifying, and even funny.”
Jill S. McDonoughfrom O’Riley
But it was your mouth that moved to meet mine and made the moon slice herself into snow and made strings tie …
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These poems are about the people we love and the sometimes cruel, sometimes joyful world we live in. We celebrate the joy and acknowledge, and mourn, the suffering. When we write we reclaim …
IN/DESIDERATO is a poetic meditation on what remains of us, and what has been left behind.
As refracted through the battlefields of WWII and the War on Terror, and equally through the deepest ocean depths and the …
