“Stephen Frech’s approach in these calm poems is Rilkean. A deliberate attention informs their beauty.”—Don Bogen“In Toward Evening and the Day Far Spent, Stephen Frech takes a time-honored, traditio
“What continues to affect me in Robert Miltner’s Against the Simple is the silence that haunts the edges of experience and meaning. Like the lonely streetscapes of Giorgia De Chirico, Miltner’s poems
“Traveling from her pastoral America to Neruda’s Chile and the Ireland of St. Kevin, Elizabeth Breese sings the lonely-wild lyric of ditch flowers and raw honey, tornados and radios, broken birds and
“Jody Rambo’s poems push and pull, travel and rest, occupy and set free. Her ‘tether’ both holds her fast to the facts and words that make up our world, but at the same time it liberates her to roam a
“These precise, plain-spoken poems are limned by a subtle music, not to mention a lyric grace that is never overplayed. For in a world as harsh as this one, a world delimited by war, beauty is as appa
“Heather Lanier’s The Story You Tell Yourself may be a first book, but Lanier’s firm intelligence and lyrical artistry make poems that are clearly the confident work of an extraordinarily accomplished
“In Punctum:, Lesley Jenike’s new collection, she writes, ‘It’s our language: what can we call a thing that is and is not.’ These poems are haunted by a ‘non-child,’ a child who was not to be born, an
Stone for an Eye is a collection of poetry based on daily meditations on a river stone. Craigo moves past the need for a clever idea and enters into more honest terrain. The resulting poems use the st
Daniel Carter s Here Both Sweeter is a book in which you have a seedling in each pocket, a body bodies, and words are something you carve out so as to make a home. The poems are stories, are seeds, ar
“Alison Stine’s best poems here are confessional and meditative sequences, but are shadowed by the tradition of dramatic narrative; they propose types of redemptive performance….Their white spaces are
“Inspired by the story of Secundus the Silent Philosopher and the twenty vital questions posed to him by Emperor Hadrian, J. Gabriel Scala’s Twenty Questions for Robbie Dunkle moves swiftly and deftly
