(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
(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
(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