Easy MarksDavid Robert BooksChapbook, 75 pagesISBN 978193499900066Link to Purchase Reviewed by Martin Abramson I must say these poems are a delight. What a treat to be able to laugh at poems with conventional dark, even tragic subjects, handled with such …
Yearly Archives: 2010
Easy Marks by Gail White
Posted in April 1, 2010
An interview with Robert Fanning
Posted in April 1, 2010
by Jill Crammond Wickham Jill Crammond Wickham: How did the Prophet “announce his entrance” to you? Was it, as it is in the collection’s first poem, “The Prophet at the Dry Cleaners,” with a “dull rattle of bells”? Do you remember when …
American Fractal by Timothy Green
Posted in April 1, 2010
American Fractal by Timothy GreenReviewed by Karen J. Weyant American FractalRed Hen PressPerfect Binding, 104 pagesISBN-13: 9781597091305 Link to Purchase One could waste a lot of time – precious time – wondering about the title of Timothy Green’s debut collection …
An Interview with January Gill O’Neil
Posted in April 1, 2010
by Jessie Carty January Gill O’Neil is the author of Underlife (CavanKerry Press, December 2009). Her poems and articles have appeared in The MOM Egg, Crab Creek Review, Ouroboros Review, Drunken Boat, Crab Orchard Review, Callaloo, Babel Fruit, Edible Phoenix, …
An interview with Kate Durbin: Part I
Posted in April 1, 2010
by Jill Crammond Wickham Part II is here, in the Winter 2011 issue of Poets’ Quarterly. Editor’s note: this interview was conducted with Kate in February 2010 so be sure to visit her website for more recent news. …
An interview with Ned Balbo
Posted in April 1, 2010
by Lori A. May Ned Balbo was awarded the 2010 Donald Justice Prize, selected by A.E. Stallings, for The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems (forthcoming from Story Line Press/WCU Poetry Center). His previous collections include Lives of the …
No Boundaries: Prose Poems by 24 American Poets
Posted in April 1, 2010
No Boundaries: Prose Poems by 24 American PoetsEd. Ray Gonzalez. Tupelo PressPaperback, 288 pagesISBN 1-932195-01-7 Link to Purchase Reviewed by Ann E. Michael Over the past 30 years or so, poets, critics and prosodists have dickered over the definition …
Noose and Hook by Lynn Emanuel
Posted in April 1, 2010
Noose and Hook University of Pittsburgh PressPaperback, 62 pages ISBN: 9780822960591Link to Purchase Reviewed by Adam Tavel Of the many adjectives that David St. John invokes in his glowing jacket blurb for Lynn Emanuel’s new collection Noose and Hook, the …
Voices by Lucille Clifton
Posted in April 1, 2010
VoicesBOA EditionsSoft cover, 64 pagesISBN 978-1-934414-12-5Link to Purchase Reviewed by Mary Jane Lupton The celebrated African American poet Lucille Clifton died at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore on February 13, 2010. When I had last talked to Clifton during …
Two Tales of One Tragedy: Patricia Smith’s Blood Dazzler, Katie Cappello’s Perpetual Care, and the Catastrophe of Hurricane Katrina
Posted in January 1, 2010
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Review by Karen J. Weyant Blood Dazzlerby Patricia SmithCoffee House PressPerfect Bound 90 pagesISBN 978-1-56689-218-6Link to Purchase Perpetual Careby Katie CappelloElixirPerfect Bound 88 pagesISBN 978-1932418323Link to Purchase Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast in August 2005, flooding the city …