Ellen Bass pays witness to our small but remarkable lives, and that reverence makes her book a success. 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
There are primary and secondary definitions of sisterhood: one relating to blood sisters, and one relating to any community of women. In her second collection of poems, Julie R. Enszer holds both definitions close with evocative results. Read More
The first line of the first chapbook in the Unthinkable Creatures catalog declares, “THERE IS NOTHING CREEPY ABOUT HAVING FEELINGS”—a fitting entrance for a chapbook press that prizes the raw heart above all. Read More
My Poems Won’t Change the World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Bilingual Edition) is an unmitigated, extensive collection of complex and...
Alice emerges from the poems of Annotated Glass as the goddess Athena must have from Zeus’ head—after enormous pressure and...
"When I write, I am hungry for something. And I don’t always know what it is. But the poem is there to assuage it."
Poet R. Erica Doyle gets real with Lambda Literary about the social issues invoked by her work, the type of poetry she enjoys, and the politics of her process. Read More
It’s hard to believe Chord Box (University of Arkansas Press) is the debut collection of poems from Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers. Not...
With a lean, lyrical style, Beyer asks the reader to contemplate the connection between the natural world and ourselves[...] Read More
Let us make the sounds we were never meant to make. Let us curse. Let us drive. Let us grill...
