I seem to have developed a reputation. I get asked to read at events with titles like “Bloodlines and Bodies.” I’m the first person people ask [...]
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Lily Poetry Review Books, 2019, 978-1-7337683-3-7, $15. The poems in Jeff Oaks’ Little What are masterfully hearty and inhabited. Memory, rising and falling, can be very [...]
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(Indolent Books, 978-1-945023-22-4, 2019, $19.99) Don Yorty notes that he started writing a large set of sonnets shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003. They [...]
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I first encountered Neil Shepard on the page. I remember very much liking the poems. They were firmly inhabited with many of the same Robert Frost [...]
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Somewhere between defiance and diary lies JoAnna Novak’s Noirmania. Predominantly composed of a long poem in single-page sections, Novak’s debut poetry collection (she is also the [...]
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Kiki Petrosino’s third collection, Witch Wife, begins with the self-reflexive invocation, “Self-Portrait.” This poem ranges its language from the opening line’s keening question, “Little gal, who [...]
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