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Review by Mary Meriam   The Touch By Cynthia KramanYBK Publishers, IncPerfect Bound, 140 pagesISBN: 978-0980050882 Link to purchase In the late 1970’s, Cynthia Kraman was an “avant-punk pioneer,” a “fiercely feminist frontwoman,” and a “commanding, cerebral performer in the …

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Reviewed by Emma Bolden   Tulips, Water, Ash By Lisa Gluskin StonestreetNortheasternPerfect Bound, 88 pagesISBN: 978-1555537081 Link to purchase Tulips, Water, Ash, Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet’s first collection and the winner of the 2009 Morse Poetry Prize, achieves the rare and …

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Review by Lori A. May   Then, Something By Patricia FargnoliTupelo PressPerfect Bound, 84 pagesISBN: 978-1-932195-79-8 Link to purchase As the cover suggests, Then, Something by Patricia Fargnoli offers a contradiction, or juxtaposition, of things that are and things that …

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Review by Valerie Wetlaufer Taste of Cherry By Kara CanditoUniversity of Nebraska PressPerfect Bound, 68 pagesISBN: 978-0-803225-23-7 Link to purchase Reading Kara Candito’s book Taste of Cherry is like being slapped in the face and asking for more. From poems …

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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 …

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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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