David Dodd Lee has been there with me since the beginning—not since the beginning of my reading and loving poetry, but of my writing poetry and… Read more ““Black Light / Her Name in a Cup”: Scenes & Impressions: Reading David Dodd Lee’s Animalities”
Category: Reviews & Interviews
Her Heart of Hearts & The Art of Discovery: Reading Jackie Haze’s Borderless
When I think of highways, I think of other cars, the open road, corn fields. I think of how limitless, how borderless these highways can be,… Read more “Her Heart of Hearts & The Art of Discovery: Reading Jackie Haze’s Borderless”
‘This is Not a Pipe’: The Powers of Nature & Grief over Perception & Definition: Reading Ross Gay’s Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
I don’t know about you, but in my mind, perception and grief are united. This is not to say that one cannot exist without the other,… Read more “‘This is Not a Pipe’: The Powers of Nature & Grief over Perception & Definition: Reading Ross Gay’s Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude”
Dialogue of the Body, Dialogue of a Storm: Reading Sandra Marchetti’s Confluence
Sometimes I find myself thinking so much about what poetry is or what it can do that I forget to think about how it can make… Read more “Dialogue of the Body, Dialogue of a Storm: Reading Sandra Marchetti’s Confluence”
“Look Where That Has Gotten Me”: The Potential Self-Awareness & Honesty of Poetry: Reading Tracey Knapp’s Mouth
Let me begin by playing a round of Two Truths and a Lie… We all know how this works, right? The speaker shares two truths about… Read more ““Look Where That Has Gotten Me”: The Potential Self-Awareness & Honesty of Poetry: Reading Tracey Knapp’s Mouth”
The Rhythm of Reading & Hearing Poetry: Reading Three Beautiful Collections by Susan Lewis
Do you ever find yourself in a reading slump? Or too unreasonably busy to even consider finding a way to fit reading in? And when you… Read more “The Rhythm of Reading & Hearing Poetry: Reading Three Beautiful Collections by Susan Lewis”
The Division of History & Fiction: Reading Kristy Cambron’s A Sparrow in Terezin
In Kristy Cambron’s A Sparrow in Terezin, the second novel in the A Hidden Masterpiece Novel series, two central female characters, Sera James and Kája Makovsky,… Read more “The Division of History & Fiction: Reading Kristy Cambron’s A Sparrow in Terezin”
“The Way Poetry Evokes Things / Only Potentially There”: Perception, Identity & Heritage: Reading Allan Peterson’s Precarious
In the quiet moments, when we stop to take a breath and think, we may realize that all of our thoughts, our questions, our hopes, are… Read more ““The Way Poetry Evokes Things / Only Potentially There”: Perception, Identity & Heritage: Reading Allan Peterson’s Precarious”
To the New York Times Book Review, Domestic Violence is Never Funny: A Response Review of Jill Alexander Essbaum’s Hausfrau
Readers, let me explain first that I am not one to contest reviews, whether overly positive, unconstructively negative, or anything in-between. But when a review makes… Read more “To the New York Times Book Review, Domestic Violence is Never Funny: A Response Review of Jill Alexander Essbaum’s Hausfrau”
The Waking, Danger & Consent of the Body & Love: Reading Lisa Mangini’s Bird Watching at the End of the World
When we spend a lot of time reading poetry, I know we can become critical of the pursuit of love and the defining of boundaries in… Read more “The Waking, Danger & Consent of the Body & Love: Reading Lisa Mangini’s Bird Watching at the End of the World”