She Returns to the Floating Worldby Jeannine Hall GaileyKitsune Books, 2011ISBN: 978-0-9827409-2-7 Purchase Link Reviewed by PQ Contributing Editor Ann E. Michael When a writer chooses to call upon myth and folktales in her work, readers generally feel comfortable—most readers …
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She Returns to the Floating World by Jeannine Hall Gailey
Posted in January 3, 2013
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Painting Czeslawa Kwoka, Honoring Children of the Holocaust
Posted in January 3, 2013
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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 …
A (short) history of l. by rob mclennan
Posted in January 3, 2013
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A (short) history of l.by rob mclennanBuschekBooksPerfect Bound, 95 pagesISBN: 978-1-894543-69-9Purchase Link Reviewed by PQ Contributing Editor Elizabeth Kate Switaj T.S. Eliot’s observation that “genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood” has become something of a critical cliché. Nonetheless, …
A Brief History of Time by Shaindel Beers
Posted in April 1, 2012
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Review by Jessie Carty A Brief History of TimeBy Shaindel BeersSalt PublishingISBN 978-1-84471-505-3Perfect Bound, 65 pagesLink to purchase Shaindel Beers’ first collection, A Brief History of Time, opens with the title poem, which is an ars poetica. Beers writes, “I’ve …
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 …
Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields by Ashley Capps
Posted in October 1, 2009
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Review by Tasha Cotter Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields By Ashley CappsThe University of Akron PressPerfect Bound, 69 pagesISBN: 978-1-931968-37-9Link to purchase Ashley Capps’s first book of poetry, Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields, opens with “Hymn for …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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, …