(McLean, IL: Dalkey Archive Press 2020) Toward. The word looks odd by itself, untethered from what’s behind, not yet having arrived at that which lies ahead. This untethered state is often mistakenly attributed to poetry and poets — it’s accompanied … Continued
(Warrensburg, MO: Pleiades Press, 2018) How to Tell If You Are Human, Jessy Randall’s book of diagram poems, seems by the title to be an instruction manual of sorts. It is that, but it’s also an announcement of a test: … Continued
pub info pub info pub info Deep Vellum — known for publishing award-winning translations out of its eponymous bookstore in the historically neglected neighborhood of Deep Ellum in Dallas, Texas — has come out with its first ever chapbooks of … Continued
(C&R Press, 2018) “When I was a boy, my family and I took / long forays into the woods for berries….” These are the first lines of “Morels,” a poem from Martin Ott’s new collection, Lessons in Camouflage. Venturing out, … Continued
(Calgary, Alberta: University of Calgary Press, 2018) Reach out your arms. Cup your hands together in a bowl. What do you see in your palms? Of course nothing. Now ask this: What is unseen? If the unseen were a place, … Continued
(New Jersey: Piscataway House Publications, 2016) It was night and forty degrees and spitting rain. Seated in a puffy chair, I was warm and dry and comfortable. Then I opened As an Alien in a Land of Promise, a new … Continued
(Ponte Vedra Beach, FL: Trio House Press, 2017) Have you ever stopped to watch a star or a tree, only to turn away after a moment? If you have, then you’re familiar with the feeling you get just as you … Continued
(Words Dance Publishing, 2016) Natalie Wee’s Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines is many things: 21st century guide to love and loss, statement of gender and body politics, and (this is the driving force of the book) a collection of … Continued