Bunkong Tuon
“With stirring clarity, modesty, and understatement, Tuon shares the feeling of what it must have been like at one end and what words can light up the next mystery. Most of all, he finds a place for himself …
“With stirring clarity, modesty, and understatement, Tuon shares the feeling of what it must have been like at one end and what words can light up the next mystery. Most of all, he finds a place for himself …
Drone God
The video is silent. The bomb smaller than a trenchingtool. It falls to the ambient sounds of your home,the neighbors’ children playing outside in the street,autumn birds calling to each other in the trees.The bomb, adorned …
from Deployed
At lunch, Shelby tells meher mother died when she was twenty-one, fathergone. In the living room, a cop, her uncle, anda lawyer, who slid a piece of paper across thecoffee table. She didn’t know what she’d …
“Pietà” stands out as a profound collection that delves into the depths of human experience, eliciting emotions that resonate on a universal scale. With poems of careful craft and a brushstroke of clear-cut language “Pietà” paints vibrant and …
In Catherine Carter’s latest chapbook, the poet considers the world beyond the surface: the lives of microbes, housekeepers, and history; tendrils of magic in both blessings and curses; and the magnetism of love, gin, sorrow, and the dark, …
“Here the poet sings to ‘the congress of spotted turtles on a log,’ while ‘cats track sunbeams around the house’ and somewhere above us ‘the swirling eye of August, silent at its center, / contains whole flocks of birds.’ Magical things happen …
“Myth from the field where the fox runs with its tail on fire is a book of grit, of faith, of wondrous creaturely light. In this chapbook I found a voice burning with the kind of questions I …
“Violeta Orozco offers a deep range of poetic sensibilities inside of plain talk and personal brown body politic. Stillness in the Land of Speed allows us to inhale the Atlantic and wade with the wisdom inside Yemaya’s skirt …
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In Speak Now This Charm, Deborah Bogen creates a mosaic from states of mind we all experience, but are trained to ignore. Or forget. Or devalue. She records what is visible and what is positioned …
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“Raw and plainspoken, heartbreaking yet humorous, this book is free of even the slightest hint of poetry-posturing. ‘I learned how to take care / of people from taking care of you I thought until …