Lynne Thompson – When To Bird & When To Be Human
When To Bird & When To Be Human Did you ever hear the red-bellied woodpecker give a shrill churr to any Black birder who was just looking up? Maybe you’ve heard a Virginia rail’s long sequence of piglike grunts trail off when in the presence of a Black birder or you have heard the solitary […]
Linda Ravenswood’s The Stan Poems, Reviewed by Lee Rossi
The Stan Poems: Indictments & Amendments Linda Ravenswood Pedestrian Press Reviewer: Lee Rossi The title of Linda Ravenswood’s The Stan Poems invites the reader to speculate on its ultimate meaning. Besides referring to her common-law husband, the musician and producer Stan Hillas (Jones), it also suggests something about the nature of their relationship, a “stan” […]
Matthew E. Henry’s the Colored page, Reviewed by Brian Fanelli
Matthew E. Henry the Colored page Sundress Publications Reviewer: Brian Fanelli Matthew E. Henry’s the Colored page won’t be easy to digest for every reader, especially a white audience. His poems are utterly unflinching and bold in their honesty. He uses “Theme for English B” by Langston Hughes to link together four sections that detail […]
Joanne Dominique Dwyer – Blood & Sky
Blood & Sky It was an undertaking: standing in line to select a blue or a red fountain pen from the Catholic school commissary as a little girl in my plaid uniform. It engendered infirmity in me. Boys in one line, girls in another; versant in how to stand in line, distribute weight equitably like […]
