The Honey Jar, An Armenian’s Escape to Freedom, is Joan Schoettler’s captivating tale of a young boy’s 1920, escape from his war-torn home in Armenia.
The Light of Evening, A Brief Life of Jack Foley – to be read nonstop, to cheat evening of its sleep, to learn the breadth
Grim Honey You do not need an MFA in English to read Jessica Barksdale’s latest collection of poetry, you need only to be among the
DRYSALTER – POEM BY POEM The Poem — Hymn to the Faces. Hymn to the Faces A wall of photographs from nowhere, overnight gallery
MEMORIZING SHADOWS, INSPIRATION FROM THE ARIZONA TRAIL AND STONE WISHES ON THE COLORADO PLATEAU Because we couldn’t go hiking together in red rock country this
Hollow Kingdom Are you a nature lover? A hiker? A botanist? A stargazer? A bird watcher? If so, please consider Kira Jane Buxton’s debut book,
MANY RESTLESS CONCERNS: THE VICTIMS OF THE COUNTESSS BÁTHORY SPEAK IN CHORUS Gayle Brandeis’ Many Restless Concerns: The Victims of Countess Báthory Speak in Chorus
THE WILD BRAID: A POET REFLECTS ON A CENTURY IN THE GARDEN Stanley Kunitz, U.S. Poet Laureate, one among his many honors, published The Wild
THE BEAUTY AND LONG LIFE OF POETRY – After Rain a Little Girl Straightening Worms The poems in this collection are selected from a lifetime
BECAUSE THE LIGHT WILL NOT FORGIVE ME Shaun T. Griffin, inductee into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame, is known as much for his activism
BLOOD DAZZLER I can’t think of a more appropriate book to review in this prolonged season of hurricanes than Patricia Smith’s Blood Dazzler, her 2008
INCENDIARY ART – POETRY COMES TO LIFE In his seminal book Black Is a Country, Nikhil Pal Singh argues, “modern U.S. racial history…relies on an
RETURNING A BORROWED TONGUE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF FILIPINO AND FILIPINO-AMERICAN POETRY Returning a Borrowed Tongue allowed me to listen in on a conversation about the
ADULT BOOKSTORE – WHY POETRY TODAY? I love books, poetry, and bookstores (especially ones with used books). I write poetry, I read poetry, but I
The Best American Poetry of 2015 If we liked every piece in The Best American Poetry, it would be a red flag that the anthology
Thomas Murphy “Have I told you about this?” That is Thomas Murphy speaking. They are the first words out of his mouth and, as a
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