★ I left nothing inside on purpose

An extended epigraph to Stevie Howell’s second collection cites a “note in the window of a Mercedes,” from which the book takes its title: “Do not smash glass. I left nothing inside on purpose.” While ... Read More »

April 2, 2018 | Filed under: Poetry

★ The Sparrow: Selected Poems

By A.F. Moritz

The opening poem in this new volume of selected work by A.F. Moritz claims, “I am at an age when words should be finished.” The Sparrow testifies to the fact that this is simply not ... Read More »

March 28, 2018 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Wherever We Mean to Be: Selected Poems 1975–2015

By Robyn Sarah

Spencer Gordon’s debut book of poetry, Cruise Missile Liberals, opens with the speaker admiring an X-ray’s clarity of purpose, and closes with a desire to be like the enduring trees, which never need a “wake ... Read More »

January 8, 2018 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Drakkar Noir

By Jeramy Dodds

January 8, 2018 | Filed under: Poetry

★ Cruise Missile Liberals

By Spencer Gordon

January 8, 2018 | Filed under: Poetry

Trailer Park Elegy

By Cornelia Hoogland

Thematically, Joe Denham’s fourth collection, Landfall, is a long question, a wrangle with the ontological realities of living at this time of degenerating species, and an interrogation of the meaning of otherness in an interconnected ... Read More »

December 11, 2017 | Filed under: Poetry

Landfall

By Joe Denham

December 11, 2017 | Filed under: Poetry

Into the Open: Poems New and Selected

By Susan McCaslin

The word “panicle,” which serves as the title for Gillian Sze’s fifth collection of poetry, refers to a branch with many clusters on it. It’s an apt title for this stellar work. In four discrete ... Read More »

December 11, 2017 | Filed under: Poetry