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 …
Tag Archives: Summer 2015
Review: Hominid Up by Neil Shepard
Posted in August 22, 2015
Tags: Brian Fanelli, Neil Shepard, review, Salmon Poetry, Summer 2015
Review: Paradise Drive by Rebecca Foust
Posted in August 22, 2015
Tags: Rebecca Foust, review, Summer 2015, Vicki Hudson, Winston-Salem: Press 53
Vicki Hudson Paradise Drive Rebecca Foust Winston-Salem: Press 53 Softbound, 114 pp 978-1-941209-16-5 http://www.press53.com/Award_for_Poetry.html The titular poem in Rebecca Foust’s Paradise Drive richly envelopes the reader’s senses, beginning the submersion into Foust’s exquisite collection of sonnets. “Roses blooming straight through …
The Miracle of Mercury—An interview with Joan Hanna
Posted in August 22, 2015
Tags: interview, Millicent Borges Accardi, Summer 2015
Millicent Bórges Accardi Peter Campion, author of Other People and The Lions has said poet Joan Hanna possesses a unique “ability to portray, in high resolution and with evocative power, the people and places that make up a passionate and …
Lines in Space
Posted in August 22, 2015
Tags: Leslie L. Nielsen, letter from editor, Summer 2015
What is the defining characteristic of poetry? That the lines don’t go all the way to the end of the page? That the words and their music launch us into another sphere of attentiveness and sense? Something outside the poem …
White Space as Metaphoric Frame
Posted in August 22, 2015
Tags: essay, Jennifer Burd, Summer 2015
Jennifer Burd “Framing” has many connotations when we talk about art. We might describe it as a boundary that sets off a photograph, the silence that surrounds notes of music, or the stillness that informs the movements of a sculpture …
Baudelaire, Breton, and the Madness of Love
Posted in August 22, 2015
Tags: essay, Manash Bhattacharjee, Summer 2015
Manash Bhattacharjee Breton dreamt of people making perfect love in glasshouses. He meant glasshouses literally. But Nadja was not the glasshouse of mad love. Nadja was mad. Breton – the timid hero of madness – fled Nadja before tasting the …
CantoMundo Poets Head to Bread Loaf
Posted in August 22, 2015
Tags: interview, Millicent Borges Accardi, Summer 2015
Millicent Bórges Accardi Founded in 1926, the famed Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference boasts an amazing literary and intellectual tradition, each summer, gathering together both emerging and seasoned writers, working closely together with a diverse and talented faculty. There are small-group …
Poems in a Box—An Interview with Poet Adele Kenny
Posted in August 22, 2015
Tags: Diane Lockward, interview, Summer 2015
Diane Lockward Adele Kenny is the author of several collections of poetry, most recently Lightness, A Thirst, or Nothing at All and What Matters which received the 2012 International Book Award for Poetry. Her poems have been published in such journals as …
Review: Waving Back by Gail Thomas
Posted in August 22, 2015
Tags: Gail Thomas, review, Steven Riel, Summer 2015, Turning Point Books
Steven Riel Waving Back Gail Thomas Turning Point Paperback, 87 pages ISBN 9781625491251 http://turningpointbooks.com/gail-thomas.html Waving Back, Gail Thomas’ third book of poetry, impresses us with the achievements of a mature and adept craftsperson. In addition to admiring Thomas’ artistry, we …
Seeing The Belle of Amherst
Posted in August 22, 2015
Tags: Carol Smallwood, essay, Summer 2015
Carol Smallwood It was my good fortune recently to view The Belle of Amherst, the Tony award-winning monologue on Emily Dickinson performed by Julie Harris. Dickinson’s poem about death kindly stopping for her gave me resolve to tackle writing about …