Beth Copeland’s Blue Honey, Reviewed by Cindy Hochman

Beth Copeland Blue Honey The Broadkill River Press Reviewer: Cindy Hochman In Beth Copeland’s award-winning collection Blue Honey, the Greek goddess of memory, Mnemosyne, hovers protectively, safeguarding the poet’s own recollection as she documents her parents’ progressively dwindling recall. Told in narratives that are both straightforward and imaginative (many of them in couplet form, as […]

M. Scott Douglass’s Just Passing Through, Reviewed by Brian Fanelli

M. Scott Douglass Just Passing Through Paycock Press Reviewed by Brian Fanelli M. Scott Douglass’s Just Passing Through contains snapshots of life on the road from a biker’s perspective. The poems, however, will still resonate with readers that can’t tell the difference between a Harley and a Triumph. Douglass offers vivid imagery of American life, […]

Jared Smith’s Shadows Within the Roaring Fork, Reviewed by Richard Allen Taylor

Jared Smith Shadows Within the Roaring Fork Flowstone Press Reviewer: Richard Allen Taylor Early in his latest collection, Shadows Within the Roaring Fork, Jared Smith firmly establishes himself as a serious, truth-telling, common-sense kind of poet who would never fake his own death. So, it comes as a shock when he begins the poem, “Learning […]

Amy Small-McKinney’s Walking Toward Cranes, Reviewed by Ann Wehrman

Amy Small-McKinney Walking Toward Cranes Glass Lyre Press Reviewer: Ann Wehrman Cancer. The word strikes fear, anger, and grief into one’s mind and heart. Despite 21st century medical wizardry—including stem cell therapies, bionic body parts, and quick and easy outpatient surgeries—cancer remains a dreaded killer. “According to estimates from the International Agency for Research on […]

George Drew’s Fancy’s Orphan, Reviewed by David E. Poston

George Drew Fancy’s Orphan Tiger Bark Press Reviewer: David E. Poston George Drew’s Fancy’s Orphan is a fascinating mix of voices presented in fluid and supple lines. These poems are Frost-haunted, with echoes of Keats, Wordsworth, Yeats, and Rilke. Their penetrating descriptions present what Hopkins called the inscape of both the natural world and of […]