Review of Glyphs by Martina Reisz Newberry Dear God, point me to a myth, that will raise my cherished dead and bring them back to me, bright, iridescent as the stars. — (“On The Anniversary Of Marianne’s Death”) Los Angeles poet Martina Reisz Newberry is a seeker. In her latest (sixth) collection Glyphs, she asks …
Poetry Review: A Burning Lake of Paper Suns by Ellen Webre I move as deer, as jackrabbit in hawkflight, A red-breasted bird, a bonfire of oak and holly. I harness the sky with a cinnamon broom. I sweep away the blighted root, the sorrow choke. I make a speech of suppertime, bring milk and …
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Why are some people monsters? Why? Katerina Canyon’s speaker in her brilliant, moving poetry collection Surviving Home tells us something about monsters. When Canyon chose the word “surviving“ for part of the title of this collection, she was not using a metaphor and not exaggerating. In “I Am the Complete Secret,” the speaker says, “I …
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My scar, now multiple surgeries deep, marks the path I walk, the miles to go before I sleep, the hours I’ve had to cry, sweat, bleed, beg this life for another chance. (“New Love”) The micro-chapbook Bone Water by Kelsey Bryan-Zwick (Blanket Sea Press 2021) is a about a person in pain suffering from scoliosis, …
“After months of zombie hunts and wangling / the Morton Salt Girl went postal” (“THIS JUST IN”). I was lazing in my quarantine-induced cocoon when Bill Cushing’s chapbook …this just in… pierced my cone of silence with powerful poetic updates about the outside world. The book is subtitled: “A poetic journal of news stories, fake …
Recently, I was privileged to interview distinguished post-modern poet Alan Britt (“AB”) by email for Cultural Daily. I was introduced to Britt’s writing when, knowing nothing about him personally, I favorably reviewed his previous poetry collection Gunpower for Single Ball Poems (Rain Taxi, June 2021, print edition). We’ve become acquaintances since then, and when I …
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Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality. —Emily Dickinson Unholy Heart by Grace Bauer is an enchanting collection that captivated me from the start and never stopped. It is a “best of” book featuring selected poems from Bauer’s five …
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Angele Ellis is a Pittsburgh-based writer of poetry, flash fiction/short stories, essays, and book reviews. She also is an editor and activist. A prolific writer with numerous publications, she has written two books that stand out. First is her poetry collection Arab on Radar (Six Gallery Press). These are poems of identity and family, of …
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“I’m not sure that I’ve overcome all of the obstacles to become a poet. All I know is that I decided to claim poetry and I haven’t looked back.” — Brenda Joyce Patterson * Our intrepid Associate Poetry Editor Mish (Eileen) Murphy recently talked with poet Brenda Joyce Patterson by email and face-to-face. Mish explains: I …
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Fifteen It was noon and 110 degrees when he picked me up near scrub oak fields sloping down to Lake Parker’s swamps, Nicholas, the Italian kid at our high school who played guitar in a band and who’d gripped me so tightly last night while we slow danced at a porch party his breath on …
From the word go, Mish disarmed me with her wit, acumen, and straight shooting. In her poem, ‘Living Enough for the City,’ she dares to hold a mirror up to our society in the face of the Covid-19 virus, and reduces the ‘sacred cow’ of the American Dream (‘cash/chic/limos/verve’) to something superficial by likening it …
you look back and realize you made all the wrong friends. dated all the wrong girls. said i love you to all the wrong people. (“2 a.m. or dawn” 140) The speaker in Scott Laudati’s new-to-many collection Hawaiian Shirts in the Electric Chair REDUX is a young man facing the normal problems of his …
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