by Imani Benjamin-Wharton · December 17, 2019
Nikky Finney, whose new work as well as an interview with Dr. Elizabeth West appears in Vol. 19, no. 2, grew up in an environment that wasn’t focused [...]
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by Scott Hightower · December 04, 2019
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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by Scott Hightower · October 23, 2019
(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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by Scott Hightower · September 11, 2019
LITTLE-KNOWN OPERAS, Patrick Donnelly (Four Way Books, 9781945588310, 2019, 15.95) In one of the opening poems of Patrick Donnelly’s “Little-Known Operas” an-eater-of-songbirds covers his head to [...]
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by admin · July 09, 2019
We are delighted to announce Kathy Nelson as this year’s winner of the James Dickey Prize for Poetry. Her work will be published in the Vol. 20, no. 1 issue [...]
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by Scott Hightower · May 17, 2019
“THE MIRACLES” Amy Lemmon: C & R Press, 978-1-949540-00-0, $16.00 Writing is a socially charged, personal art. It is a direct line from the artist’s mouth [...]
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