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A Review of Michelle Y. Burke’s Animal Purpose

In the opening poem of Michelle Y. Burke’s poetry collection Animal Purpose (Ohio University Press) she tells of a horse that breaks away from her grip as she leads… Read more “A Review of Michelle Y. Burke’s Animal Purpose”

Though CDs were the primary media in music sales by the time I was a teenager, I am old enough to have enjoyed the tail end of… Read more “A Review of Brenda Shaughnessy’s So Much Synth”

In “Flame War,” the poem that gives her debut poetry collection Witch Hunt its title, Juliet Escoria offers something of a statement of purpose for the book, or… Read more “A Review of Witch Hunt by Juliet Escoria”

Even my name knelt down inside me, asking to be spared. Ocean Vuong’s Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Copper Canyon Press, 2016) is a collection of quiet urgency,… Read more “A Review of Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong”

Divorce Procedures for the Hairdressers of a Metallic and Inconstant Goddess by Justin Isis, if you can’t tell from the title, is a self-consciously strange little book,… Read more “A Review of Divorce Procedures for the Hairdressers of a Metallic and Inconstant Goddess by Justin Isis”

Galvanized, the new collection from Vermont poet Leland Kinsey, is a document of the hardship and rough-hewn beauty of living close to the land, in reach of… Read more “A Review of Galvanized: New and Selected Poems by Leland Kinsey”

The Woman Who Married a Bear by Tiffany Midge, a poet of mixed white and Lakota heritage who is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux… Read more “A Review of The Woman Who Married a Bear by Tiffany Midge”

The Crimes of Clara Turlington by Meg Johnson (Vine Leave Press, 2015) is a thin collection full of sex and fire. These pieces are mostly poems, but… Read more “A Review of The Crimes of Clara Turlington by Meg Johnson”

Everyone longs for bad reasons most of their lives, and those of us who know it lie or shut up. – from Diana In her debut collection Constellarium… Read more “A Review of Constellarium by Jordan Rice”

oh Lord I’ll make a broken music or I’ll die… – from “The Snow Apples” In her new collection Window Left Open Jennifer Grotz explores the relationship between… Read more “A Review of Jennifer Grotz’s Window Left Open”