Eleanor Kedney’s Between the Earth and Sky, Reviewed by Richard Allen Taylor
Eleanor Kedney Beneath the Earth and Sky C&R Press Reviewer: Richard Allen Taylor Eleanor Kedney’s new full-length poetry collection Beneath the Earth and Sky memorializes several of the author’s family members, living and dead, with the latter far outnumbering the former. She draws our attention first to her brother, Peter, to whom the book is […]
Leonard Gontarek – About the Great Trees
About The Great Trees I write about the great trees. That is, the sea of leaves, a coming darkness, rising past the windows. I understand I may not understand. Not everyone does. I accept it like a train without an open seat moving past mountains, coated with purple talc, […]
Judith Skillman’s The Truth about Our American Births, Reviewed by Erica Goss
Judith Skillman The Truth about Our American Births Shanti Arts Reviewer: Erica Goss The poems in Judith Skillman’s enigmatic new collection, The Truth About Our American Births, provide clues to the shifting stories of the author’s family’s past. Bits and pieces of that elusive truth appear in various forms throughout the book: a grandmother’s eccentricities, […]
Tony Gloeggler’s What Kind of Man, Reviewed by Shawn Pavey
Tony Gloeggler What Kind of Man NYQ Books Reviewer: Shawn Pavey Tony Gloeggler’s What Kind of Man reads like a verse memoir as each poem bleeds into the next and builds upon what has come before. The poems deal with challenging themes – romantic and familial love, illness, treatment, recovery, aging, mortality, and loss – […]
Malaika King Albrecht’s The Stumble Fields, Reviewed by Vivian Wagner
Malaika King Albrecht The Stumble Fields Main Street Rag Publishing Company Reviewer: Vivian Wagner The Stumble Fields, a new collection of poetry by Malaika King Albrecht, is about life and death and everything in between. These poems explore how we inhabit the earth and how we can find our way to grace and beauty, even […]
