Death of a Salesman casts a theatrical shadow over this wildly thoughtful collection, Elizabeth A. I. Powell’s second after The Republic of Self, a New Issue First Book Prize winner. A Vermonter since 1989, her poems have appeared in... Read More

There is holiness in the stillness and the wild, as it becomes clear in Margo Wheaton’s new collection. Her poems speak of the ways that the earth’s movements translate through human bodies. They personify winds and snows, while... Read More

There are good dragons and there are bad dragons, pronounces a new mother in Melissa Dickey’s poetry collection. "Dragons" encapsulates the potency of modern womanhood, with its fearsome potentiality and its perceived limits, and... Read More

Orit Gidali’s poetry reflects segments of the contemporary Israeli psyche: awareness of fragility; a ferocious love for a complex inheritance; and a desire for the cessation of violence, as much for one side as for the other.... Read More

Gudgeon’s first poetry collection is a quirky valentine to irreverent readers, full of stark and pretty imagery, wry quips, and glorious bursts of vulgarity. Its foci include human foibles, Canadian eccentricities, and, always,... Read More

This lovely, softer revival of beat poetry looks back on the hedonism of summers in the Hamptons. With vivid settings and an audacious voice, Theodore M. Wandzilak’s collection "The East Deck Motel and Selected Poetry" offers a... Read More

These poems are haunting, with a blend of ferocity and obscurity. In his collection "Another Side of Thoughts", Anders Wennerstrom explores themes related to time and gender. This slim volume of poems occupies space somewhere between the... Read More

There is a joyfulness in these poems, a positive outlook that verges on the mystical. In Henry Cunningham’s poetry collection "The Geometry of Freedom", free verse becomes the vehicle for addressing issues of the self, like fulfilling... Read More