In Sarah Van Arsdale’s new poetry, energy is one thing and emotion is another.…

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  In Staying the Night, Ilene Rudman’s debut collection of poems, we find an outlook tender…

  Harris’ poetic landscape is apocalypse, imagined and real. Full of hydroponic lettuce, empty cul-de-sacs,…

  Reading Suburban Sutras, as I am, during a global pandemic, a national uprising against systematic racism…

  How to chronicle a lifetime? If it can be done at all, it must…

  In Rebecca L’Bahy’s capable hands, interrogating domesticity and “talking back” to its critics proves…

  “There is a music in these poems that works magic with the particularity of the images…

  Faith Paulsen vividly captures the intimacies, secrets, and sorrows between beloved family members and…

  From Red Washburn’s poem,“156 Ave and Madison Road,” they draw me deep into the…

  There’s much to love about Even in the Slums of Providence, by Larry Pike.…

  “Circling what is and is not home,” the girls and women in Anne Dyer…

  In Danny Rivera’s Ancestral Throat, the death of a father becomes the occasion for…

  Sarah D’Stair’s One Year of Desire is both celebration and testament to the journey, not the…

  “Is the egg obvious? Witek’s visual text candles language in this volume of discovery,…

  “In the tradition of the modern doctor-poet (think William Carlos Williams), Richard Donze attentively…

  “It is time the stone took the trouble to bloom” Paul Celan once wrote,…

  From start to finish, this first book of poems shines with brilliance, poignancy, and…

  All of us, from bumpkins to artists, are always picking up and carrying on.…

  In Once Read as Ruin, Katherine Gaffney brilliantly weds the apocalyptic and domestic.  Thrumming…