Poetry

Resume Drowning

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

By Sonja A. Skarstedt

Before We Had Words

This elegant book of verse is an exercise in the elegaic written, as the author indicates in more than one poem, ...

By Lucille King-Edwards

Café Alibi

Todd Swift is an unsettling writer. One of the things that strikes me about his latest poetry collection, Café ...

By Adrienne Ho

The Envelope. Please (CD)

The Envelope, Please, by Swifty Lazarus - a collaboration between the poet and the composer/musician Tom ...

By Adrienne Ho

Pavilion

After rejuvenating the myth of Alice in White Stone, and after writing the elegant, self-assured, ...

By Carmine Starnino

Girls and Handsome Dogs

Girls and Handsome Dogs by Norm Sibum is an eccentric work. Halfway into it, I confess I felt like the lady ...

By Andrew Steinmetz

Clinical Studies

Clinical Studies, a slim volume of free verse, is George Slobodzian's first book-length collection of ...

By Andrew Steinmetz

A Picnic on Ice: Selected Poems

My first encounter with the work of Matthew Sweeney was a poem called "Frog-Taming," in which it is claimed that ...

By Adrienne Ho

The Lover’s Progress

Readers are advised to ignore everything about this book from the title and the preface and go directly to the ...

By Edward R. Smith

Hotel Montreal

These collections (Hotel Montreal and Dissonance and Shadows) show two unique lives charted via lyrical, sometimes ...

By Sonja A. Skarstedt

Of Dissonance and Shadows

These collections (Hotel Montreal and Dissonance and Shadows) show two unique lives charted via lyrical, sometimes ...

By Sonja A. Skarstedt

Sheep’s Vigil by a Fervent Person

A few, no doubt, suspected something, but the full scope, ambition, and size of the project interrupted in 1935 ...

By Carmine Starnino