(Cleveland, OH: Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2019) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s website is chock-a-block with opioid overdose statistics. From 1999-2017, nearly 400,000 people have died from an overdose involving opioids. There is a tendency (among … Continued
(Cleveland, OH: Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2015) If you’ve ever driven down a mountain road at night, you have some idea of what it’s like to pick up Lee Upton’s new poetry collection Bottle The Bottles The Bottles The … Continued
(Cleveland, OH: Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2014) More and more contemporary American poems, particularly those of younger poets, seem preoccupied with the nexus of family, self, and identity. While these topics are not inherently flawed or unworthy of exploring, … Continued