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My Review of Angela Voras-Hills’ LOUDER BIRDS is Now Live at Green Mountains Review!

by McKenzie | Jul 28, 2020 | Achievements, Publications, and Writing Challenges, Blog, Poetry Collections, Reviews

Hi everyone! I’m happy to announce my latest review, Angela Voras-Hills’ Louder Birds from Pleiades Press, 2020, is now live at Green Mountains Review! You can read it here! Elizabeth Powell at GMR recommended this book to me and was a true joy to work...

“My Face Resembles / The One Reflected in the Water”: Reading David Dodd Lee’s And Others, Vaguer Presences

by McKenzie | Oct 16, 2018 | Poetry Collections, Reviews

  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, for some writers who attempt this form, the goal is to reinvent the words that are on the page, than to accept them and...

‘This is Not a Pipe’: The Powers of Nature & Grief over Perception & Definition: Reading Ross Gay’s Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

by McKenzie | Feb 8, 2016 | Poetry Collections, Reviews

  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, but only that our perceptions vary based on our state of mind—especially when we are talking about grief. On an average,...

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