Review by Dayna Patterson Many poets are familiar with Trish Hopkinson, the “selfish poet.” She is not just a supremely skilled poet herself, but a friend to poets, guiding writers as they navigate the complex Poetryverse through her website,…
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Review by Sara Epstein Suzette Mullen is the founder of Your Story Finder nonfiction book coaching and a founding board member of the Lancaster (PA) LGBTQ+ Coalition. Her “tiny love story,” the seed which became this book, was published in…
Exciting new titles in nonfiction and poetry. Catherine Ricketts The Mother Artist: Portraits of Ambition, Limitation, and Creativity. Broadleaf Books, April 16, 2024 This work of literary nonfiction blends memoir with studies of the art and lives of women artists who…
Review by Michelle Panik In Shutta Crum’s latest chapbook, The Way to the River, readers embark on an exploration of struggle and suffering, beauty and triumph, which asks them to consider how a journey can shape a person, and…
Forest Reverie: A Review by Suzette Bishop of Suzanne Frischkorn’s Whipsaw The New England forest surrounds us, lives in us, in Whipsaw by Cuban-American poet and essayist, Suzanne Frischkorn. This is her newest poetry collection just out from Anhinga…
Review by Diane Gottlieb What would you do if your young son’s night terrors have begun to spill into his daytime hours? If your own childhood was fraught, leaving you with few positive parenting models to draw from? If…
Review by Jessica Manack Kari Gunter-Seymour, whose term as Poet Laureate of Ohio was just extended by Governor Mike DeWine, is a people’s poet. She writes of her people, for her people, and spearheads the collection of regional voices…
Review by Mary Ellen Talley Susan Rich demonstrates her command of poetic imagery and manuscript crafting in her sixth collection, Blue Atlas. The title refers to the resilient blue-green tipped cedar tree that is native to North Africa. “Hourglass,”…
Review by Sharon Tracey I Say the Sky, the second poetry collection by Nadia Colburn—poet, teacher, literary critic, and writing coach—is an immersive and moving read—infused with earth, the body, family, memory, love and anxiety, environmental devastation and beauty,…
Review by Katie Kalisz In Emily Tuszynska’s debut poetry collection Surfacing, winner of the 2023 Grayson Books Poetry Contest, the speaker traces how a mother constantly self-divides and reemerges, “full of tenderness and dread” (19). The poems move between…