The thing that I love about erasure poetry is how interactive it can (and should!) be with the original work it is pulling from. I think,… Read more ““My Face Resembles / The One Reflected in the Water”: Reading David Dodd Lee’s And Others, Vaguer Presences”
Category: Reviews & Interviews
“Black Light / Her Name in a Cup”: Scenes & Impressions: Reading David Dodd Lee’s Animalities
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”
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”