Brian Fanelli Hominid Up Neil Shepard Salmon Poetry Paperback, 86 pages ISBN: 978-1-908836-95-3 http://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=350&a=266 In some ways, Neil Shepard’s sixth book of poems, Hominid Up, feels representative of his body of work to date, in that the book contains a …
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Review: Hominid Up by Neil Shepard
Posted in August 22, 2015
Tags: Brian Fanelli, Neil Shepard, review, Salmon Poetry, Summer 2015
Going Inside the Cave: Where the Personal and Political Intersect in Contemporary Narrative American Poetry
Posted in April 6, 2015
Tags: Brian Fanelli, essay, Spring 2015
Brian Fanelli In his essay “A Defence of Poetry,” Percy Shelley declares that poets should be “the unacknowledged legislators of the world. In Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke takes a more confessional stance, stating that to write …
Review: Naked by Donnelle McGee
Posted in April 6, 2015
Tags: Brian Fanelli, Donnelle McGee, review, Spring 2015
Brian Fanelli, PQ Contributing Editor Naked Donnelle McGee Unbound Content Paperback, 110 pages ISBN-13: 978-1936373437 http://unboundcontent.com/naked-by-donnelle-mcgee/ In his manifesto “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,” Langston Hughes defines blues and jazz as a “revolt against weariness in a white …
Review: What We Pass On by Maria Mazziotti Gillian
Posted in October 11, 2014
Tags: Brian Fanelli, Fall 2014, Guernica Editions, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, review
Brian Fanelli, PQ Contributing Editor What We Pass On Maria Mazziotti Gillan Guernica Editions Paperback, 440 pages ISNB: 978-1550713046 http://www.guernicaeditions.com/title/9781550713046 For decades, Maria Mazziotti Gillan has defended the narrative form in poetry, especially through her workshops, interviews, and personal …
Review: Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting by Kevin Powers
Posted in July 15, 2014
Tags: Brian Fanelli, review, Summer 2014
Brian Fanelli, Contributing Editor Review of Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting Kevin Powers Little, Brown, 2014 96 pages, perfect bound ISBN: 978-0316401081 Prior to releasing his debut poetry collection, Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting, …
The Silence in an Empty House by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Posted in April 19, 2014
Tags: Brian Fanelli, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, NYQ Books, The Silence in an Empty House
Review by Brian Fanelli The Silence in an Empty House Maria Mazziotti Gillan NYQ Books, 2013 Perfect Bound, 92 pages ISNB: 193552089X Purchase link Anyone familiar with Maria Mazziotti’s poetry or anyone who has flipped through the pages of Patterson …
All That Remains by Brian Fanelli
Posted in January 16, 2014
Tags: Andrew Ruzkowski, Brian Fanelli
Review by Andrew Ruzkowski All That Remains Brian Fanelli Unbound Content, 2013 Perfect Bound, 80 pages ISBN 978-1-936373-46-8 Link to Purchase As I sit down to write this review of Brian Fanelli’s latest collection, All That Remains, I am looking …
Revisiting Jack Gilbert… by Brian Fanelli
Posted in January 29, 2013
Tags: Bedside Table Series, Brian Fanelli, essay, January 2013
Bedside Table Series: #3by PQ Contributing Editor Brian Fanelli During my M.F.A. course work at Wilkes University, I plowed through dozens of poetry collections and essays. One of the books on the list was The Great Fires, poems by Jack …
Vermont Exit Ramps by Neil Shepard
Posted in January 3, 2013
Tags: Brian Fanelli, January 2013, review
Vermont Exit Rampsby Neil ShepardBig Table PublishingPaperback, 44 pagesISBN: 9780984956760Purchase link Reviewed by PQ Contributing Editor Brian Fanelli Anyone who has ever hopped in the car for a cross-state or cross-country road trip will find familiarity in the images in …
Painting Czeslawa Kwoka, Honoring Children of the Holocaust
Posted in January 3, 2013
Tags: Brian Fanelli, January 2013, review
Painting Czeslawa Kwoka, Honoring Children of the HolocaustPaintings by Lori Schreiner, Poems by Theresa Senato EdwardsUnbound ContentPaperback, 58 pagesISBN: 9781936373277Purchase Link Reviewed by PQ Contributing Editor Brian Fanelli Too often, history is reduced to names and dates in textbooks, or …