Poetry. The poems and short prose in Catherine Arra's WRITING IN THE ETHER were born from the connective tissue of memory, the bones of the past, and the spirit that insists not only upon seeing and r
Poetry. "The language of CHILD WITH A SWAN'S WINGS by Daniel Shapiro is downright sumptuous, the poems by turns joyful ('In the Field Between Us'), pensive, erudite, musical ('Rhymes'), sensual ('with
Poetry. Jewish Studies. "Marc Kaminsky's A CLEFT IN THE ROCK is a monumental achievement. At home in no world, Kaminsky has an uncanny gift for walking between worlds, traveling like a courier from th
Poetry. "I emptied two magazines of my .380 PPK at Jeffrey C. Wright's bulletproof poems, and they didn't make a dent. A poet true to his word and the Word, Jeff takes himself as seriously as a threat
Poetry. "In THE UNCERTAIN LOVER, Martin Willitts, Jr. presents love in all of its richness and flavor from the wistful yet resolute title poem to his remarkable poems that inhabit the art, mind, and s
Poetry. "The ambitious poems of Marc Vincenz don't fit into any poetic scene or aesthetic camp I can name--he is an internationalist, and his work mixes far-flung flavors: a little Hart Crane, a littl
Literary Nonfiction. Hybrid Genre. This is a book about displacement, flight, settlement and resettlement, about "life and death in the Pannonian plain," as Igor Webb writes, appropriating the old Rom
Poetry. So taken for granted, we hardly know it's there, the body's inhale and exhale from first breath to last. In tune with the heart's beating, whose life breathes us here? Whose laughter, tears, s
Poetry. "In GARLANDING GREEN, Christine Aikens Wolfe summons worlds of green and the green of creation with a sense of folk wisdom. She writes of relics, spells, and invocations: 'Pour the dregs of yo
