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Review: Alexis Rhone Fancher and Cynthia Atkins’s Duets

Alexis Rhone Fancher and Cynthia Atkins’s Duets Duets by Alexis Rhone Fancher and Cynthia Atkins is the result of a friendship and collaboration between the two poets. Each of them responded to Fancher’s photography and the result is a collection that captures the anxiety and inward-turning that we, or at least I, have felt over …

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Review: Wherever I’m At: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry, Donald G. Evans and Robin Metz, Eds.

Review of Wherever I’m At: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry, Donald G. Evans and Robin Metz, eds.   Wherever I’m At: An Anthology of Chicago Poetry is the brainchild of Robin Metz, who gathered work for years before cancer finally led him to join forces with and ultimately pass the project on to the poet …

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Review: Nightmares & Miracles by Michelle Bitting

Poetry Review: Nightmares & Miracles by Michelle Bitting Michelle Bitting’s Nightmares & Miracles goes straight into the center of things that matter, but that is not surprising. Bitting is a poet who never wastes our time. She helps us to understand what is magic and horrible in our world as the title of this collection suggests. …

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Review: The Distance of Observation by Conney Williams

Conney Williams’s The Distance of Observation reminds us that love can take us out of the mundanity of the everyday and make life heroic, even mythical. Williams’s newest collection centers around the spiritual, physical, and emotional drama of this emotion and shows us how our lives are destroyed and elevated from it. He speaks of …

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Review: Rich Ferguson’s Everything Is Radiant Between the Hates

When I first read Rich Ferguson’s Everything Is Radiant Between the Hates, I thought he was only cataloguing what makes life chaotic and difficult. However, it became clear fairly quickly that while he is often discussing the toxic, the painful, and the frightening, where he is best is when he is providing ways through the …

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