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Monthly Archives: January 2014
A Review of Heather Cousins’s Something in the Potato Room
A Review of Heather Cousins’s Something in the Potato Room by Jennifer Dane Clements Something in the Potato Room, the book-length poem that won Heather Cousins the Kore Press First Book Award, is an unexpected ars poetica. It is about … Continue reading
SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: ACE BOGGESS
PROPERTY By Ace Boggess (Today’s poem originally appeared in Rattle and appears here today with permission from the poet.) Ace Boggess is the author of two books of poetry: The Prisoners (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2014) and The Beautiful Girl … Continue reading
A Review of Molly Beth Griffin’s Silhouette of a Sparrow
A Review of Molly Beth Griffin’s Silhouette of a Sparrow by Jeff Moscaritolo On your next trip to a bookstore, check out the YA section (if you weren’t already planning to), and conduct the following experiment: Find the books targeting … Continue reading
When Your Student Dies During the Semester
Morning Glories Sensing Noon Or: When Your Student Dies During the Semester By Angie Mazakis Before class, already you know that you are going to teach how the complications of humor and death in this story—the writer’s careful balance of … Continue reading
Posted in Essays
Tagged Angie Mazakis, death, grief, loss, lyric essay, micro essay, Poetry of Loss, prose poem, Teaching
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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: MARK NEPO
BREAKING SURFACE By Mark Nepo Let no one keep you from your journey, no rabbi or priest, no mother who wants you to dig for treasures she misplaced, no father who won’t let one life be enough, no lover who … Continue reading
Posted in Mark Nepo
Tagged American Poetry, Celebratory Poetry, Poetry, Poetry of Faith, Spiritual Poetry
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A Review of Eva Saulitis’s Leaving Resurrection: Chronicles of a Whale Scientist
A Review of Eva Saulitis’s Leaving Resurrection: Chronicles of a Whale Scientist By Randon Billings Noble I read Leaving Resurrection: Chronicles of a Whale Scientist in the cold and dark. I was not in Alaska, on various boats and beaches … Continue reading
SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: LEAH UMANSKY
KHALEESI SAYS By Leah Umansky Game of Thrones In this story, she is fire-born: knee-deep in the shuddering world. In this story, she knows no fear, for what is fractured is a near-bitten star, a false-bearing tree, or a dishonest … Continue reading
A Review of Seth Brady Tucker’s Mormon Boy
A Review of Seth Brady Tucker’s Mormon Boy By Karen Craigo I’ve always felt drawn to work of poets from the Great War. Writers like Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon brought home to their readers the terrors of war, and … Continue reading
SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: JOSHUA BORGMANN
WHEN YOU WAIT FOR LOVE By Joshua Borgmann A silence thickens into a wall of stone. I’ve slept in late and written my days with fear in an empty house and gone to bed alone. For hours, I’ve sat and … Continue reading
Posted in Joshua Borgmann
Tagged American Gothic Poetry, American Poetry, Love Poetry, Poetry, Rhymed Poetry, Romantic poetry
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A Review of Rachael Lyon’s The Normal Heart and How It Works
A Review of Rachael Lyon’s The Normal Heart and How It Works By Kirsten Clodfelter Beyond the page in human form, Rachael Lyon is petite and funny and kind. She speaks patiently and with near-constant laughter. She is bright, warm-spirited, … Continue reading
The As It Ought to Be Archive 