Ethiopian American poet Mahtem Shiferraw won the 2015 Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets for her collection Fuchsia, and the book has been published from University of… Read more “A Review of Fuchsia by Mahtem Shiferraw”
Tag: Poetry
A Review of Look by Solmaz Sharif
Solmaz Sharif’s debut poetry collection Look from Graywolf Press is a book that should provoke anger in its readers: anger because of the injustices the book chronicles, because of the lies spoken… Read more “A Review of Look by Solmaz Sharif”
A Review of You Can’t Pick Your Genre: Poems by Emily O’Neill
Does it take a village to end one girl? – from “Who Should I Say Is Calling?” Emily O’Neill’s collection You Can’t Pick Your Genre (Jellyfish Highway, 2016)… Read more “A Review of You Can’t Pick Your Genre: Poems by Emily O’Neill”
A Review of Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
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”
The Black Maria by Aracelis Girmay
Aracelis Girmay’s new poetry collection The Black Maria (BOA Editions, 2016) is a perpetually shifting document, one that skirts from one corner of her mind to another, from… Read more “The Black Maria by Aracelis Girmay”
A Review of Divorce Procedures for the Hairdressers of a Metallic and Inconstant Goddess by Justin Isis
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”
A Review of Waiting Room by Jennifer Zilm
Jennifer Zilm’s debut poetry book Waiting Room (BookThug, 2016) is a curious collection. From Zilm’s disparate roles–Bible student and scholar, dental and mental health patient, public housing worker–she assembles… Read more “A Review of Waiting Room by Jennifer Zilm”
A Review of Cynthia Cruz’s How the End Begins
History wants to hurt you. Cynthia Cruz asserts this in the opening poem of How the End Begins, her new poetry collection from Four Way Books. She speaks with… Read more “A Review of Cynthia Cruz’s How the End Begins”
A Review of Galvanized: New and Selected Poems by Leland Kinsey
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”
A Review of Abandoned Homeland by Jeff Gundy
Ohio poet Jeff Gundy’s Abandoned Homeland is a collection of simple poems that feel rooted in their midwestern state of origin. These poems are of this place, a state… Read more “A Review of Abandoned Homeland by Jeff Gundy”
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