Acquainted with the Cold
Two strangers meet at a bar in the dead of winter: We can’t stop/erasing the ghost between our bodies, leaving//our mouths’ lost words all over/one another, whoever we are. Taken from the poem, “Mysterious Origin,” these lines invite us to explore the multiple facets of identity in Lexa Hillyer’s debut collection. Winner of the 2011 […]
Poetry – not an elitist art form
Today, while at the South Lake Tahoe farmers market, I met Kim Wyatt, whose Bona Fide Books published a book we reviewed a few weeks ago, Why I Farm. I was interested in meeting Kim because Bona Fide Books also publishes poetry, which Bookin’ with Sunny, although a general readership review site, stubbornly continues to […]