Rick Mulkey’s “Ravenous” Book Launch, Hub City Book Store
On Thursday, August 28 at 7:00 PM, Hub City Bookshop in Spartanburg, S.C. hosted a book launch for poet Rick Mulkey’s newest collection of poems, Ravenous: New and Selected Poems. On hand to read poems...
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View ArticlePoetry of Witness: “Against Forgetting,” edited by Carolyn Forché
Against Forgetting In the introduction to her anthology, “Against Forgetting,” Carolyn Forché writes that a poem of witness is both “an event and the trace of an event” (33), which suggests to me...
View ArticleEmbracing Earthen Roots, Book Review by Emily Wilson
Requiem for an Orchard by Olvier de La Paz Manila-born and Oregon-raised poet Oliver de la Paz’s third collection of poetry, Requiem for the Orchard, reveals both his scientific understanding and...
View ArticleReview of Only as the Day is Long by Dorianne Laux
Only as the Day is LongNew and Selected Poemsby Dorianne LauxNew York: W.W. Norton & CompanyPaperback: 2020 A review by Dana DeliboviDorianne Laux was not someone I ever chose to read. I knew she...
View ArticleA Corrective for Anxious Times
A Book Review of Carol Alena Aronoff’s “The Gift of Not Finding: Poems for Meditation” Homestead Lighthouse Press, August 2020 110 pages $16.95 By Devon Balwit Some days ago—162 to be...
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Arrowby Sumita ChakrabortyFarmington, ME: Alice James BooksPaperback: 2020Review by Dana Delibovi One night this past fall, I stood in the backyard, staring at a big, white moon in the branches of a...
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