“PROSPECT/REFUGE,” ELAINE SEXTON
by Scott Hightower · January 29, 2019Prospect/Refuge is Elaine Sexton’s third book. It was published from Sheep Meadow Press in 2015. That year I was relaxed in writing reviews, did pen some [...]
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“How It Is, Selected Poems” / Neil Shepard — Salmon Poetry
by Scott Hightower · December 04, 2018I 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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“I was less dead then:” On JoAnna Novak’s Noirmania
by Caroline Crew · October 22, 2018Somewhere 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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Apples and Reading Selecteds
by Scott Hightower · October 01, 2018Fall, when fresh stacks of a wide variety of apples appear at the market, I luxuriate in the choice: Honey Crisps, Grannie Smiths, Gala, Delicious, Fuji, [...]
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“Somehow we got out of there alive / though we didn’t quite return:” On Kiki Petrosino’s WITCH WIFE
by Caroline Crew · September 24, 2018Kiki 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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Stories Felt in the Body—James Thomas’s and Robert Scotellaro’s New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction
by Candace Nadon · September 05, 2018The stories collected in James Thomas and Robert Scotellaro’s stellar new anthology New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction (W.W. Norton, 2018) are all 300 words or less, [...]
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