Nicole Santalucia’s The Book of Dirt, Reviewed by Brian Fanelli
Nicole Santalucia The Book of Dirt NYQ Books Reviewer: Brian Fanelli While Pennsylvania has traditionally voted for Democratic presidents, including Bill Clinton twice and Barack Obama twice, the state flipped in 2016, and Trump won it by a slim margin. Though PA contains Philly and Pittsburgh, as well as several mid-tier, working-class cities like Scranton […]
Alan Semerdjian’s and Aram Bajakian’s The Serpent and the Crane, Reviewed by George Wallace
Alan Semerdjian and Aram Bajakian The Serpent and the Crane (Spoken word with music) Funded by an Armenian General Benevolent Union Performing Arts Grant and a Creative Armenia Spark Grant Reviewer: George Wallace If collaborative performance is a horserace, then Alan Semerdjian goes trifecta with his ambitious new project The Serpent and the Crane, a […]
Connie Post’s Prime Meridian, Reviewed by Richard Allen Taylor
Connie Post Prime Meridian Glass Lyre Press Reviewer: Richard Allen Taylor Take a sphere, any sphere: a planet, pearl, or ping pong ball. Mark a dot to represent the North Pole. Place another dot at the point farthest away from the first dot, to indicate the South Pole. Draw a line, as straight as you […]
Adele Kenny’s Wind Over Stones, Reviewed by Vivian Wagner
Adele Kenny Wind Over Stones Welcome Rain Publishers Reviewer: Vivian Wagner Wind Over Stones is a remarkable collection of ekphrastic prose poems by Adele Kenny exploring mortality, loss, and joy. At the bottom of each poem’s page there’s a QR code leading to the artwork that inspired the poem, and this design proves a creative […]
Paul Sohar’s In Sun’s Shadow, Reviewed by David E. Poston
Paul Sohar In Sun’s Shadow Ragged Sky Press Reviewed by David E. Poston Paul Sohar’s long experience as a translator of Hungarian poets such as Miklós Radnóti, Zoltán Böszörményi, and György Faludy has informed his own poetry in fascinating ways. In his new collection, In Sun’s Shadow, we see a clear preference for concrete language […]
