Reviews
I Wish My Father by Lesléa Newman
Review by Carole Mertz Each poem in I Wish My Father is written in three-line stanzas. Through these poems,…
Matryoshka Houses by Lynn Pattison
Review by Mindy Kronenberg If home is where the heart is, the poems in Matryoshka Houses scaffold into a…
Devil’s Lake by Sarah M. Sala
Review by Tasslyn Magnusson It’s a bold and beautiful move to open your poetry collection with a poem about…
Blue Desert by Celia Jeffries
Review by Ellen Meeropol In her debut novel, Celia Jeffries writes parallel narratives of Alice George: 18-year old Alice…
The Falls by Emily Mohn-Slate
Review by Cammy Thomas If I remember correctly, there’s a moment in the movie Zorba the Greek when the…
28,065 Nights by Katie Manning
Review by Sarah W. Bartlett , Katie Manning’s website bio starts with “Upon first seeing a rhinoceros at the zoo…
Dove, Coyote by Laura Page
Review by Julia Lisella Laura Page is a visual artist as well as a poet, and that sensibility of…
Motherland by Sally Thomas
Review by Carole Mertz Motherland moves me more than any poetry I’ve read in recent months. Through Sally…
The Bitter Kind: A Flash Novelette by Tara Lynn Masih and James Claffey
Review by Laura Dennis At its best, flash fiction is a powerful alchemy that combines the best of poetry…
Rise Wildly by Tina Kelley
Review by Lisa C. Taylor What initially struck me about Rise Wildly by Tina Kelley was the imaginative titles of…
Leave It Raw by Shakira Croce
Review by Barbara Ellen Sorensen In Shakira Croce’s debut poetry chapbook, Leave It Raw, there is an awareness of the…
Forget Russia by L. Bordetsky-Williams
Review by Lara Lillibridge Forget Russia is a novel told in two perspectives, that of Anna, a twenty-two-year-old American…