Review by Melissa Kutsche Tara Lynn Masih is an award-winning author of fiction, poetry, and essays. Her YA novel, My Real Name is Hanna, won the Florida Book Award for YA literature, and she has been nominated multiple times for…
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Review by Tessara Dudley Women In Marigold is a book of poems that explore the smallest moments of life with lush imagery and evocative metaphor. This collection is playful and serious by turns, but earnest and real throughout. Each…
Review by Rebecca Jane Continental Drift maps humanity’s kinship with a teeming variety of psycho-social natural geology. A “Field Trip” lyric considers “what rays gild a heron’s thoughts?” (10) and “what green itches each new earth in winter’s wake”…
MER Bookshelf – August 2026 Sarah Jefferis, Lucky to Have You, Finishing Line Press, May 2026, poetry Lucky to Have You is a collection of narrative lyric poems that meditate on romantic loss and love. Loss and luck are…
Review by Tessara Dudley Before I know the names of every tree and birdsong along the saltmarsh, I will hold my daughter. And I will finally understand that it is possible to be both the doe standing in the clearing…
Review by Rebecca Jane The Presence of One Word reawakens a reader’s senses, inviting quiet charms to bloom with meaning. This collection shares deep inner peace that the poet has discovered on her journeys—to a grandmother’s house in Greece,…
Review by Katy E. Ellis Joanna Streetly is a prize-winning Canadian poet and non-fiction writer who emigrated from Trinidad and has lived on the unceded territory of the Tla-o-qui-aht on Vancouver Island for the past thirty years. The poems…
Shasta Grant on When We Were Feral Interviewed by Tyler Wetherall Shasta Grant’s haunting debut novel is a coming-of-age story that doesn’t shy away from the brutalities of girlhood. Set in 1990s rural New Hampshire, it follows 13-year-old Maggie…
Curated by Melissa Joplin Higley Pooja Ugrani, My Home is Dissent, Poetrywala, February 2026, poetry My Home is Dissent is a luminous poetry collection that moves fluidly between the everyday and the elemental, where the domestic becomes a site…
Review by Tessara Dudley Singing from the Deep End is a powerful book of poetry about motherhood and life cycles. It is divided into three sections, each focused on the author’s relationships with the four people to whom the…