Reviews

I'm coming across great writing all the time these days. I've shared thoughts about some discoveries in online reviews. I've tried to keep the authors' writing front and center in them. As you read, I hope you also get a sense of what matters to me about poetry.

 The reviews I've published include...

• Christopher Gilbert, Turning into Dwelling, in Center for Literary Publishing

• Jesse Lee Kercheval (editor), América invertida: An Anthology of Emerging Uruguayan Poets, in MAYDAY Magazine, Issue 11

• Gretchen Marquette, May Day, in Center for Literary Publishing

• Bao Phi, Thousand Star Hotel, in MAYDAY Magazine, Issue 12

• Max Ritvo, Four Reincarnations, in Center for Literary Publishing

Other collections I'd recommend include...

• Ruth Baumann, Thornwork

• Roger Bonair-Agard, Tarnish and Masquerade (with a CD included)

• Dara Yen Elerath, Dark Braid

• Heid E. Erdrich, Little Big Bully and editor of New Poets of Native Nations

• Katie Ford, If You Have to Go

• Carrie Fountain, Burn Lake

• Terrance Hayes, How to Be Drawn

• Taylor Johnson, Inheritance

• Deborah Keenan, The Saint of Everything

• Steve Orlen, This Particular Eternity

• Matt Rasmussen, Black Aperture

• Sam Roxas-Chua, Saying Your Name Three Times Underwater and Echolalia in Script

• Jason Shinder, Stupid Hope

• Michael Torres, An Incomplete List of Names

What I’m reading at the moment…

• Kathleen Driskell, Next Door to the Dead