My first encounter with the work of Matthew Sweeney was a poem called "Frog-Taming," in which it is claimed that ...
By Adrienne Ho
Poetry
Readers are advised to ignore everything about this book from the title and the preface and go directly to the ...
By Edward R. Smith
These collections (Hotel Montreal and Dissonance and Shadows) show two unique lives charted via lyrical, sometimes ...
By Sonja A. Skarstedt
These collections (Hotel Montreal and Dissonance and Shadows) show two unique lives charted via lyrical, sometimes ...
By Sonja A. Skarstedt
A few, no doubt, suspected something, but the full scope, ambition, and size of the project interrupted in 1935 ...
By Carmine Starnino
If the Cadillac of American pop culture has a hood ornament-at least as far as Montreal poet David McGimpsey is ...
By Noel Rieder
I recently got my hands on Louis Dudek’s reading copy of John Metcalf’s notorious 1982 essay collection, Kicking ...
By Carmine Starnino
Small press enthusiast and conundrum press leadman Andy Brown has been putting out poetry and fiction bits of his ...
By rob mclennan
Sonja A. Skarstedt has done impressive things over the years as a publisher under the Empyreal name, even though ...
By rob mclennan
Filled with radiant techniques is another first collection, this one Susan Gillis’s Swimming Among the Ruins, ...
By rob mclennan
Someone casually said to me of Carmine Starnino, "His poetry is about his family, isn't it?" My reply is that this ...
By Lucille King-Edwards