Poetry

A Day’s Grace

In a short work from A Day's Grace called "Poems," Robyn Sarah suggests that a poem is "a small machine to ...

By Bert Almon

Snow Formations

Carolyn Souaid's book is deeply involved with the Canadian North, specifically the Ungava coast, where she spent ...

By Bert Almon

Bamboo Church

Ricardo Sternberg's poems offer pleasure. His forms are elegant: he loves three- and four-line stanza and even ...

By Bert Almon

An ABC of Belly Work

Peter Richardson, who is also given to formal neatness, opens The ABC of Belly Work with a poem about his ...

By Bert Almon

The Way Life Should Be

Ken Norrris's book, the latest of twenty titles, does not have a heartening effect. Norris's earlier work was ...

By Bert Almon

How We Play At It: A List

Matt Robinson's poems are intellectually passionate in the tradition of John Donne. He draws metaphors from ...

By Bert Almon

Calling Home

Richard Sanger's second collection of poems, Calling Home, like his first, is committed to traditional ...

By Bert Almon

throw the captain overboard!

It's astonishing and somewhat alarming what can pass for poetry under the auspices of spoken word. Just add a ...

By Adrienne Ho

Antimatter

It's astonishing and somewhat alarming what can pass for poetry under the auspices of spoken word. Just add a ...

By Adrienne Ho

One Building in the Earth

Maggie Helwig's new collection gives a good overview of a career which has developed without much commentary. The ...

By Bert Almon

Transcona Fragments

Jon Paul Fiorentino crosses the threshold of despair and completely immerses both himself and the reader in a ...

By Sonja A. Skarstedt