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Review by Lauren Rusk Rooms and Their Airs By Jody GladdingMilkweedPerfect Bound, 80 pagesISBN: 978-1-57131-432-1 Link to purchase Entering Jody Gladding’s exquisite small poems, I feel space open up and take a fuller breath than I have for a while. …

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Review by Carol Dorf   Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics Edited by Sarah Glaz & JoAnne GrowneyAK Peters, Ltd.Perfect Bound, 250 pagesISBN: 978-1568813417Link to purchase When I joined the River of Words readers to read poetry at the …

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Review by Christina Cook   the dream and the dream you spoke By Maureen AlsopinSPIREd Poetry Series, Spire Press, Inc.29 pagesISBN:978-1-934828-03-8 Link to purchase Maureen Alsop’s latest collection of poems, the dream and the dream you spoke, rides the razor’s …

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Reviewed by Jill Crammond Wickham At night, the deadBy Lisa CiccarelloBlood Pudding PressChapbookLink to purchase “You lock the door. You lock the window. You dream of the dead.” Most of us fear the dead. We fear their reach from beyond, …

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Reviewed by Anne Harding Woodworth Back of the Envelope By Greg McBrideSoutheast Missouri State University PressA Copperdome ChapbookISBN: 978-0-9798714-98Link to purchase Back of the Envelope is a chapbook of 24 poems that fold a man’s life into itself. From childhood …

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Review by Lori A. May   Dear Anaïs: My Life in Poems For You By Diana M. RaabPlain View PressPerfect Bound, 96 pagesISBN: 978-1-891386-41-1Link to purchase Most poets will all too happily speak of influential voices, mentors, and inspirational books. …

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Reviewed by Jessie Carty Aphrodite’s DaughterBy Becky Gould GibsonTexas Review PressISBN: 9781933896106Perfect Bound, 80 pagesLink to purchase Aphrodite’s Daughter, winner of the 2006 XJ Kennedy Poetry Prize, is a feminist study expressed in 38 poems. Gibson predominantly uses themes surrounding …

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