(Edmonds, WA: Ravenna Press, 2021) In Lord Baltimore, poet Peter Ramos offers a dark vision of mid-to-late twentieth-century America as a lonely urban and sub-urban, post-industrial wasteland. The poems, named for Cecil Calvert, the 18th-century patron saint of Baltimore, teem … Continued
(Edmonds, WA: Ravenna Press 2021) Raven with huge paws and a brown snout. Boots with an active tongue and a fluffy tail. Bird the husky mix who “sings.” Spiff. Doodle. Elle. These are but a few of the delightful dog … Continued
(Edmonds, WA: Ravenna Press, 2019) Joan Fiset’s newest collection, How It Was with Scotland (2019, Ravenna Press), is a startling, vivid chapbook comprised of fragmentary poems and surreal images. Each poem is paired with visual art by Noah Saterstrom, and … Continued
(Edmonds, WA: Ravenna Press, 2018) Deborah Woodard has written a little masterpiece. No Finis; Triangle Testimonies, 1911 transported me back in time to an event that had somehow, until now, eluded me: the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York … Continued