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Oct 16, 2015
Houses by Nikki Wallschlaeger (Horse Less Press, 2015)
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The word homesick is sort of beautiful because it refers to a particular kind of longing, while also suggesting that one’s home can ma...
Jun 1, 2015
Warden by Rebecca Wolff (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2014)
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The first poem in Rebecca Wolff's Warden, "Admit No Impediment", introduces us to a speaker of such calculated menace that...
May 28, 2015
Dark Green by Emily Hunt (The Song Cave, 2015)
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I knew Emily Hunt's photography before I read a single word she wrote. Fond of landscape design, her photographs show how shrubs, hed...
Jan 14, 2015
Hymn To Life by Timothy Donnelly (Poetry Magazine/Factory Hollow Press, 2014)
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We only see the wind because we see the tree’s reply to it. Timothy Donnelly’s long poem Hymn to Life behaves similarly, but inste...
Nov 17, 2014
Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (Horse Less Press, 2014)
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While reading Tim Earley's Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, one is struck by its fidelity to derangement. Narrative peaks...
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