MER Bookshelf – December 2024 Curated by Melissa Joplin Higley Megan Merchant & Luke Johnson, A Slow Indwelling, Harbor Editions, November 2024, poetry. This unique collaborative work explores parenthood, illness, and the beauty found in life’s fragile moments through…
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Review by Sharon Tracey From the Latin ministerium comes the word ministry: the service and work of providing assistance and care. And in her engaging new collection, Wonderwork, poet and Unitarian Universalist minister Sandra Fees invites us to bear…
Review by Jeannine Hall Gailey A Passionate Plea for a Dying Planet: Martha Silano’s This One We Call Ours In Martha Silano’s sixth book, the Blue Lynx-prize winning This One We Call Ours from Lynx House Press, the call…
Review by Katie Kalisz Natalie Solmer’s debut collection Water Castle takes as its muses water, grandmothers, and ancestry. It has three sections, “Snowbelt Wind”, “Motherland”, and “Map in My Palm”, 38 poems in total. Each section begins with a…
Review by Nicelle Davis The Odyssey Reimagined: A Review of Odysseus’ Daughter by Cammy Thomas Odysseus’ Daughter by Cammy Thomas offers a fresh and intimate retelling of The Odyssey, presenting the legendary tale through first-person narratives that breathe new…
Review by Amanda K. Jaros As a mother, backpacker, and nature lover, I’ll pick up any book on these themes. It’s rare to find a book that covers all three. So, I was delighted to read Andrea Lani’s Uphill…
Review by Jesse Breite Rediscovering Motherhood: A Review of Lodged in the Belly by Jennifer Hyde Dracos-Tice “I want to see the afterbirth” writes Jennifer Hyde Dracos-Tice in the opening poem of Lodged in the Belly (Main Street…
Review by Deborah Leipziger In a time where we need courage, Linda Carney-Goodrich’s poems help make us brave. In her first collection, Dot Girl, she breaks new ground in her searing poems of redemption and transformation. She takes us…
Review by Melanie McGehee In A Measure of Intelligence, Pepper Stetler journeys through history to discover how and why society has come to define and measure intelligence as we do. She purposes to challenge our thinking, ultimately hoping for…
Review by Emily Webber Laura Chow Reeve’s debut story collection, A Small Apocalypse, takes place in the wildness of Florida, following a group of queer friends in mostly interlinked stories as they form bonds with each other, defy expectations,…