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A Review of How to Tell If You Are Human by Jessy Randall

February 4, 2019

Hayden Bergman

(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

A Review of The Darkness Call by Gary Fincke

May 28, 2018

Elizabeth Jaeger

(Warrensburg, MO: Pleiades Press, 2018) Years ago, I used to make scrapbooks. Actually, they were more like photo albums in which I incorporated scraps of things I collected on my overseas journeys. I affixed ticket stubs from museums and trains, … Continued

A Review of Poetry Comics: From the Book of Hours by Bianca Stone

August 15, 2016

Heather Lang

(Warrensburg, MO: Pleiades Press, 2016) I remember the first time that, in terms of the poem, words failed me – not my words or another’s words but words in general. I was attempting to describe a man speaking and, behind … Continued

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