Reading Lise Goett’s The Radiant is a thrilling confirmation that “poetry is not like. It is the very […]
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Informed by Alison Stone features a different form of poetry in each section: Pantoum, Ghazal, Villanelle, Sonnet, Sonnet […]
Cheryl Ann Passanisi on Alison Stone’s Informed
“Through singing, opera must make you weep, shudder, die.” […]
Leslie Friedman on Weep, Shudder Die by Dana Gioia
Just below our feet, billions of whisper-thin hyphae combine to form mycelium, the filaments of which fungi are […]
K.B. Kinkel on Lesley Wheeler’s Mycocosmic
Like the halves of the god-severed wholes in Aristophanes’ Symposium fable, image and word wander the world in […]
H.L. Hix on Geoffrey Gazza’s Self Geofferential
Take in these shrapnel fragments of aria slowly, word by word—or, as the collection’s epigraph, “To make sounds […]
Lise Goett on Roberto Tejada’s Carbonate of Copper
As someone who has written in the past about nettles, brambles, cow parsley and the like, touching on […]
Robert Dunsdon on Perishable by Stelios Mormoris
This second collection by Stelios Mormoris offers three sections: Lamentations, Flora Mortis, and Perishable. Lamentations begins with “Belle-Ile,” […]
Aline Soules on Perishable by Stelios Mormoris
As with all received forms, there is no such thing as a sonnet, either as Platonic ideal to […]
A Review of Henri Cole, Gravity and Center: Selected Sonnets ...
Refugees don’t just have dreams, aspirations, and families they leave behind. They get horny, fuck, and fantasize about […]
An Erotic Body Politic: Sulaiman Addonia’s The Seers. A ...
Genocide is an often hidden part of our nation’s history, so as a poet, I wonder how poetry […]
Unlocking History’s Door: Denise Low’s House of Grace, House of ...
Jen DeGregorio is a rising star in the contemporary literary landscape. Among her many artistic gifts is an […]