Road-Tripping from Home
For the lonesome soul, The Road is a companion; We never go alone. Travel by Haiku: Volumes 6-10: Far Out […]
New Release: Self-Portrait as a Sinking Ship by Erica Abbott
Happy book birthday to Self-Portrait as a Sinking Ship by Erica Abbott! The confessional-style of this poetry chapbook explores themes […]
Poetry Against the Coronavirus
“Poets have always been those we turn to as witnesses. Poets can crystallize a moment like this,” says New Yorker poetry editor Alice […]
Walt Whitman’s Affirmative Power
At one point in What Is the Grass, Mark Doty asks, “How would you ever understand the places to which […]
The Major Virtues of Lynn Levin’s New Poetry Collection
The major virtue of Lynn Levin’s The Minor Virtues is that you read it, cover to cover, with a smile. Not that poetry […]
A Masterful Encounter with a Great Mind and Greater Suffering
The beauty and tragedy of Alan Turing … the brilliance and difference of his mind and spirit, right from childhood […]
Delightfully Perplexed and Transfixed by The Sacramento of Desire
Sacramento of Desire invites us to hang out as Bloch weaves—and to get woven in ourselves.
Clever and Vigorous Our Age of Anxiety Leads to Many Pleasures
Clever, vigorous, Our Age of Anxiety, Henry Israeli’s latest collection, won the august White Pine Poetry Prize last year. Perhaps […]
An Honest and Raw Spiritual Journey
So Speak The Stars offers the rare chance for a reader to reflect alongside the writer. Written almost entirely in second […]
Poems That Beg to be Written
These suggestions grab the imagination and keep it engaged.