“We Call Them Beautiful” * KC Trommer
by Scott Hightower · February 25, 2020Diode Editions, 2019, 978-1-939728-29-6. Poetry is itself a trick, an illusion of survival. With a title like “We Call Them Beautiful” one has to get past [...]
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Nikky Finney on Mentorship and Permission
by Imani Benjamin-Wharton · December 17, 2019Nikky 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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“Little What” Jeff Oaks
by Scott Hightower · December 04, 2019Lily 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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“Spring Sonnets” by Don Yorty
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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LITTLE-KNOWN OPERAS, Patrick Donnelly
by Scott Hightower · September 11, 2019LITTLE-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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Announcing Kathy Nelson as the Winner of our James Dickey Prize for Poetry
by Megan Sexton · July 09, 2019We 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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