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The Sandpiper's Spell

by Jeana Jorgensen

Reflecting on the enchantments that nature casts on people, The Sandpiper’s Spell is a beautiful poetic mosaic. Tom Pearson’s The Sandpiper’s Spell contains poems that meditate on nature, life, death, and memory, using language in... Read More

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Still, the Sky

by Dontaná McPherson-Joseph

"Still, the Sky" is a labyrinthine poetic epic that fleshes out a resilient and multifaceted mythological brotherhood. The Greek myths of Icarus and the Minotaur are reimagined in Tom Pearson’s poetic epic "Still, the Sky". Toggling... Read More

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Rank Songbirds

by Michele Sharpe

"Rank Songbirds" is a confident and challenging multigenre collection that places interpersonal concerns into historical and political context. Novelist, essayist, and poet Leon Rooke’s literary collection "Rank Songbirds" is a slim,... Read More

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Reflections on Mountaineering

by Jeana Jorgensen

"Reflections on Mountaineering" is a poetic love letter to the indomitable spirits of Earth’s peaks. Alan V. Goldman’s "Reflections on Mountaineering" considers every aspect of mountain climbing in poetic form, from triumphs to... Read More

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The Humbling and Other Poems

by Michele Sharpe

Via formal verses, the poetry collection "The Humbling and Other Poems" conveys a gentle, generous world view. Written in traditional formats, the entries of Robert J. Tiess’s poetry collection "The Humbling and Other Poems" concern... Read More

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Ask the Brindled

by Matt Sutherland

Truth spoken by poets matters more simply because the poet settles for nothing but the truth, so help her Veritas, daughter of Saturn. Such vigilance is arduous, and as a queer, Indigenous Hawaiian, No’u Revilla is as singular a voice... Read More

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La Movida

by Matt Sutherland

Inspiration: handy stuff, if you can find it. Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta secured theirs in the revolutionary struggles of Chicana feminists and Spain’s Post-Franco queer punk movement, so this collection doesn’t play nice with fascists... Read More

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