Lisa Allen Ortiz’s Guide to the Exhibit, Reviewed by Lee Rossi

Lisa Allen Ortiz Guide to the Exhibit Perugia Press Reviewer: Lee Rossi In Guide to the Exhibit, Lisa Allen Ortiz offers the reader a tour of her own personal museum of natural (and unnatural) history, the product of a lifetime’s devoted collecting. Filled with wonders—birds abound but also mastodons and minerals, gemstones and microfossils—the book […]

Ian Ganassi’s Mean Numbers, Reviewed by Cindy Hochman

Ian Ganassi Mean Numbers China Grove Press/IsoLibris Publishing Reviewer: Cindy Hochman And now for something completely different… Perhaps in the Age of Trump, we have become all too accustomed to non sequiturs. The difference, however, between the president’s non sequiturs and Ian Ganassi’s is that the poet’s seemingly disconnected lines are actually an exercise in […]

John Paul Davis’s Crown Prince of Rabbits, Reviewed by Francine Witte

John Paul Davis Crown Prince of Rabbits great weather for MEDIA Reviewer: Francine Witte Think tornado. Think of the wind spinning and swirling around you, everyday objects plastered to the inner walls of the funnel. Look, there’s a chair! Look, there’s a tree! Items you have seen a thousand times, but now, are lifted out […]

Donna Spector’s Two Worlds, Reviewed by Ann Wehrman

Donna Spector Two Worlds Kelsay Books/Aldrich Press Reviewed by: Ann Wehrman In her 2016 collection, Two Worlds, playwright and poet Donna Spector reads her world nakedly, sans attachments, only to return scrutiny to herself, asking, “This is a place of non-desire, I know, / but how can it be when I want / now to […]

Alison Stone’s Ordinary Magic, Reviewed by David E. Poston

Alison Stone Ordinary Magic NYQ Books Reviewer: David E. Poston Antoine Court de Gebelin claimed the tarot was all that survived of the Egyptian Book of Thoth, though it more likely began as a curiously illustrated deck invented for the medieval Italian game of tarocchi. The dozens of different sets of tarot illustrations occupy a […]