Leuzzi’s images at once startle and ring true; his use of language adroit and “precise as a needle[...]” Read More
The demise of many long-term relationships are rife with familiar battles: the nostalgia for romantic times gone by, the gratitude...
"It would be redundant to ask if Simmonds plays an instrument when his voice is an instrument, a conduit of incomparable depth and range." Read More
Nefarious is a testament whose utterance often feels less printed than voiced by a cool gust pushing newspapers along the city’s now-gentrified streets and renovated piers, where hustlers and other outcasts of society once made defiant gestures of survival. Read More
Ellen Bass pays witness to our small but remarkable lives, and that reverence makes her book a success. Read More
There is a quiet precision to Bondhus' poems, like sealing something dangerous, despairing or grotesque in a glass jar. Read More
"McLane has made me appreciate the artful ways that 'high' and 'low' diction co-exist in her own work—and more than co-exist: the ways her idiosyncratic approach to poeming thrives through deft and playful juxtaposition." Read More
Moïse’s poetry embraces everything from her native Haiti, to the experience of an immigrant child, to Basquiat, to the loss of her uncle to AIDS. With brilliant control, Moïse pulls taut the wire that transforms pain into poetry. Read More
Siek’s poems have a way of hooking you in with the specificity of daily life’s doldrums (commuting, car battery lugging, grocery shopping, mail opening, dishwashing, working, and working out) and the speaker’s inner thoughts and lively, sometimes brooding associations. Read More
A homoerotic interfaith adventure awaits in The Daring of Paradise, the newest poetry book by Toronto teacher Brian Day....
