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 …
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Voices by Lucille Clifton
Posted in April 1, 2010
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 …
Used White Wife by Sandra Simonds
Posted in October 1, 2009
Review by Valerie Wetlaufer Used White Wife By Sandra SimondsGrey Book PressStaple-Bound Chapbook, 23 pages Sandra Simonds is a wry and inventive poet, telling us in the first line of this chapbook, “It is absolutely unnecessary to write serious …
Aphrodite’s Daughter by Becky Gould Gibson
Posted in October 1, 2009
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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 …
Dear Anaïs: My Life in Poems For You by Diana M. Raab
Posted in October 1, 2009
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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. …
Back of the Envelope by Greg McBride
Posted in October 1, 2009
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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 …
At night, the dead by Lisa Ciccarello
Posted in October 1, 2009
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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, …
the dream and the dream you spoke by Maureen Alsop
Posted in October 1, 2009
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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 …
Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics
Posted in October 1, 2009
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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 …
Rooms and Their Airs by Jody Gladding
Posted in October 1, 2009
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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. …