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Connections

by Michele Sharpe

Friendly and wise, the poems collected in "Connections" muse through heady contemporary topics. Pairing text with photographs, Ian Stott’s poetry collection "Connections" distills wisdom from lived experiences. Written in a friendly,... Read More

Book Review

Yaguareté White

by Matt Sutherland

Moving through the ambiguities of language—English, Spanish, and Paraguay’s Indigenous Guaraní—the grin of a big cat shadowing his every unstealthy step through North and South American habitats and fixed ideas of manhood, Diego... Read More

Book Review

Sailing without Ahab

by Matt Sutherland

Herman Melville—mystic, orca oracle, and madness miner—left treasures of material for poets in Moby-Dick, and Steve Mentz found his muse in the idea of an Ahab-less Pequod—a multiracial, queer, and cruisier ship on a bountifully... Read More

Book Review

Santa Tarantula

by Matt Sutherland

Do perps read poetry? Is poetry’s perpose to take aim at the malevolence in all of us? Jordan Pérez would like a word with you. An expert in online safety and childhood sexual abuse prevention, she has been published in Poetry... Read More

Book Review

Reader, I

by Matt Sutherland

“Reader, I married him”—–yes, Corey Van Landingham did. Jane Eyre acknowledgements aside, looks to the heavens to help comprehend just what that makes her. As her sidekick, we’re in for a dazzling ride of allusion, wit,... Read More

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G̱agaan X̱'usyee

by Matt Sutherland

The pieces of what’s left of a people colonized need caretaking, lionizing, and encouragement to come out into the sun. The job is left to poets who are also warriors. Descending from Alaska’s Lingít, Haida, and Yup’ik Native... Read More

Book Review

Summerday

by Michele Sharpe

In the reverential poetry collection "Summerday", each word serves the purpose of illuminating faith. Andy Chiveto’s thoughtful poetry collection "Summerday" traces a personal spiritual evolution. "Summerday" is a collection of poems... Read More

Book Review

The Horizon

by Isaac Randel

"The Horizon" is a brisk collection of poems that address loss and hope in traditional formats. The poems collected in A. O. Odimayo’s "The Horizon" are narrative-driven takes on human loss and triumph. The book’s four sections trace... Read More

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