The first writing I ever did was poetry. My sister moved away to college as I was beginning sixth grade, and for some silly reason left her… Read more “Poetry Matters.”
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A Review of Why God Is a Woman by Nin Andrews
In Why God Is a Woman (BOA Editions, 2015), Nin Andrews uses clean, unpretentious language to give us a series of short prose poems that tell of a… Read more “A Review of Why God Is a Woman by Nin Andrews”
Tick-tick In the Drifting Dark: The Last Two Seconds by Mary Jo Bang
More than anything else, Mary Jo Bang’s newest volume of poetry – The Last Two Seconds from Graywolf Press – is concerned with time. Not chronological time, but… Read more “Tick-tick In the Drifting Dark: The Last Two Seconds by Mary Jo Bang”
Yearly, Down this Hill: A Love Note to Edna St. Vincent Millay
To what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves opening stickily. I… Read more “Yearly, Down this Hill: A Love Note to Edna St. Vincent Millay”
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