Bunkong Tuon
“With stirring clarity, modesty, and understatement, Tuon shares the feeling of what it must have been like at one end and what words can light up the next mystery. Most of all, he finds a place for himself …
Tina Barr
from Deployed
At lunch, Shelby tells me her mother died when she was twenty-one, father gone. In the living room, a cop, her uncle, and a lawyer, who slid a piece of paper across the coffee table. She …
Frank Paino
“Pieta” stands out as a profound collection that delves into the depths of human experience, eliciting emotions that resonate on a universal scale. With poems of careful craft and a brushstroke of clear-cut language “Pieta” paints vibrant and …
Violeta Orozco
“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 …
Joshua Martin
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“At times an homage to icons of western culture such as Rubens and Rembrandt, and at other times the honest tracing of workers leaving the poverty of small farmers for the grinding struggle of …
Matthew Murrey
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“A generous range of thought-worthy subjects, approached with simplicity, wisdom, and a deft use of language.”
Marilyn NelsonThe poems in Bulletproof look at the joy and dread of being alive in this world. Even …
Deborah Bogen
“Grown-up poems for grown-ups.”
Stuart Friebert“I loved reading In Case of Sudden Free Fall, Deborah Bogen’s beautiful and remarkable oneiric prose poem collection. A delicious gem, it takes the reader on a soulful and transformative journey. Under …
Tina Kelley
“In Ardor, Tina Kelley crafts nineteen love poems to the world, celebrating the details of the daily-a new garden, town names on an atlas, the sound of swallowing. She pays close attention to language, writing an ode to …
Cynthia Huntington
“After experience is done teaching us just about everything it thinks it needs to teach us, we come back to desire, the one thing worth knowing. This time around desire shows up as a wild calm, dead center …
Benjamin S. Grossberg
“Difficult as it is to describe honestly the spectacle of living, to describe death and dying is to go almost where language can’t: past knowledge, experience, or the reliable image. Yet what An Elegy achieves, through its …