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Laura Costas revisits Ariadne in prose poetry
Ariadne Awakens Instructions for the Labyrinth Laura Costas Paycock Press Laura Costas’s new prose poem collection, Ariadne Awakens...
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Jun 28, 20212 min read
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Review: The Marathon Poet by Ake Hodell, translated by Fia Backstrom
The Marathon Poet By Ake Hodell Trans. By Fia Backstrom Ugly Duckling Presse Lost Literature Series November 2020 Swedish poet, artist,...
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Apr 1, 20212 min read
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James Bourey reviews DeWitt Clinton
By A Lake Near A Moon: Fishing with the Chinese Masters Poems by DeWitt Clinton Now and then we find a book that lands on so many of the...
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Apr 1, 20213 min read
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Review: Matthew A. Hamilton's The Wishing Tree
The Wishing Tree By Matthew A. Hamilton Winter Goose Publishing Matthew A. Hamilton’s The Wishing Tree, from Winter Goose Publishing, is...
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Apr 1, 20212 min read
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Review of Ra'ad Abdulqadir's This Unseen Thread
Except for This Unseen Thread: Selected Poems By Ra’ad Abdulqadir Translated from the Arabic by Mona Kareem Ugly Duckling Presse ISBN...
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Apr 1, 20214 min read
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Chester Wilson III reviews Michael Chang's Drakkar Noir
Michael Chang Drakkar Noir Bateau Press In all art, as artists, we give ourselves away. To the world, to our audience, even to ourselves,...
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Mar 5, 20214 min read
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Marshall Bood offers stark verse in Spring Cleaning, from Ugly Duckling Presse
Spring Cleaning by Marshall Bood Ugly Duckling Presse Marshall Bood’s debut chapbook, Spring Cleaning, uncovers and reveals humanity when...
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Feb 28, 20212 min read
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Review of The Distance Between Us by Jim Bourey
Jim Bourey’s The Distance Between Us, the poet’s second book, and first full length is rooted in the body, and love, eros. Between Us...
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Feb 28, 20212 min read
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Review of A Place to Hide by David Salner
By James Bourey Apprentice House Press Loyola University Maryland ISBN: 978-1-62720-345-6 319 pp - $19.99 paperback The labor movement in...
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Feb 28, 20213 min read
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Walter Bargen's Pole Dancing in the Night Club of God offers readers an epic narrative
Pole Dancing in the Night Club of God By Walter Bargen Red Mountain Press $21.99 Dense, sprawling, polluted, crumbling with age and...
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Dec 24, 20206 min read
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Maria Keene offers up lyrical poems and prints in her new book
Maria Keene Being Present Personal Spaces $14.95 Page Publishing 2020 Maria Keene’s chapbook Being Present Personal Spaces is a...
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Dec 24, 20202 min read
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Hemingway in Comics, a review
Hemingway in Comics By Robert K. Elder Published by The Kent State University Press 274 pages $29.95 First, the cover dark red...
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Dec 24, 20203 min read
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Nina Bennett reviews Disintegration, from John Patrick Mullen
Disintegration John Patrick Mullen Animal Heart Press 2020 ISBN: 978-1-67801-899-3 If you had no idea about the arc of Mullen’s chapbook,...
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Dec 24, 20201 min read
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A review of Mary Rose Beohm's The Rain Girl
By Stephen Scott Whitaker In Mary Rose Boehm’s collection, The Rain Girl violence lurks within the emotional landscape. Whether the...
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Dec 24, 20204 min read
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Review: Comanche by Brett Riley
Comanche By Brett Riley $25 Imbrifex Books Brett Riley’s gothic ghost western, Comanche, $25 from Imbrifex Books will delight readers of...
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Aug 29, 20203 min read
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Review: Tinashe Mushakavanhu’s Reincarnating Marechera: Notes on a Speculative Archive
By Stephen Scott Whitaker In Tinashe Mushakavanhu’s Reincarnating Marechera: Notes on a Speculative Archive, one of Zimbabwe’s literary...
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Aug 29, 20203 min read
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Review: Iris Cushing’s The First Books of David Henderson and Mary Korte: A Research
By Stephen Scott Whitaker The First Books of David Henderson and Mary Korte: A Research Ugly Duckling Presse $12 Ugly Duckling Presse's...
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Aug 29, 20203 min read
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A review of Jefferson Carter's reissue of Birkenstock Blues
By Frank Jude Boccio In 2019, Presa Press out of Rockford, MI published Jefferson Carter’s eleventh book of poetry entitled Birkenstock...
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Aug 20, 20204 min read
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A review of Break Out by Eric Greinke
Break Out By Eric Greinke Presa Press 2020 $24.95 Achieving lyricism in free verse narrative poems is like walking a tightrope. The poet...
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Aug 15, 20203 min read
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Crafting the Primal: Danusha Laméris’s Bonfire Opera
By Dion O' Reilly Danusha Laméris’s second book, Bonfire Opera (Pittsburg Press, 2020) continues many of the themes of her debut...
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Jul 28, 20205 min read
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