(Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2018) Before I moved to the desert, I lived in Seattle, and within walking distance from my apartment was a modest surf shop. I’d rent stand-up paddleboards and, with my small dog at the … Continued
Works Discussed: The Blessing of Dark Water by Elizabeth Lyons (Farmington, ME: Alice James Books, 2017) You Asked Me to Talk About the Interior by Carolina Ebeid (Blacksburg, VA: Noemi Press, 2017) Late Empire by Lisa Olstein (Port Townsend, WA: … Continued
“I don’t believe in poetry,” Brittany Perham wrote in her first book, The Curiosities (Parlor Press, 2012). “This might be the last poem.” After this, more poems followed; Double Portrait (W.W. Norton, August 2017), Perham’s second full length collection, which … Continued
Books Discussed: Mean Free Path by Ben Lerner (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2010) Salvage by Kristy Bowen (New York: Black Lawrence Press, 2016) What Weaponry by Elizabeth J. Colen (New York: Black Lawrence Press, 2016) I was initially … Continued