A Girl Goes into the Woods

A Girl Goes into the Woods

A Girl Goes into the Woods Lyn Lifshin NYQ Books ISBN: 978-1-935520-32-0 Reviewer: JoSelle Vanderhooft With a publication history dating back to 1969 and encompassing 130 books and three edited anthologies, Lyn Lifshin is one of the US’s most prolific and, perhaps, difficult to categorize poets. Regardless of genre or medium, many writers, poets among […]

Homecoming

Homecoming

the rocket falling all the years of stars collected in pearly pools rush by as the white egret turns to watch in this melted dawn our swift return to Earth homecoming means new hugs new breath new minutes to lie down in the grass of rivers and antiquity I missed the wind the most green […]

Autumn Dragons

Autumn Dragons

Gone now are their ephemeral green scales, replaced by a brighter palette of red and gold and yellow, and mounded sinuously by a combination of rakes, my three kids, and some applied direction. It’s a leaf dragon, I tell them. Akin to a grass snake, and slain by young warriors. We need now to ensure […]