by D.A. Lockhart Blurred Sunlight Shimmering on Wet Rocks A Review of Laurence Hutchman’s Swimming Toward the Sun. Collected Poems: 1968-2020. Guernica Editions (2020) I first heard Laurence Hutchman’s work…
J’Accuse…! (Poem versus Silence) by George Elliott Clarke Exile Editions (2021) The title of George Elliott Clarke’s book length poem, J’Accuse…! (Poem versus Silence), is borrowed from Emile Zola’s 1898…
by Bret Crowle Resurrection Fail by John Wall Barger Spuyten Duyvil (2021) Resurrection Fail begins with the disciplined and passionate detailing of personal experiences our author, John Wall Barger, but…
Hear four contributors from Volume 32 Number 2 read their work. “Siddhartha at Paia” by Diana E. Hayes from Volume 32 Number 2 – YouTube Barbara Pelman reading her poem…
by Patrick Connors If I Didn’t Love the River by Robert Priest ECW Press (2022) Robert Priest’s latest collection pushes boundaries. It cannot be defined as one school or “type”…
By Beth Everest Emptying the Ocean by Kim Fahner Frontenac House (2022) Because the title, itself, of Kim Fahner’s latest book suggests the impossible, I am instantly intrigued, and Emptying…
by Jaclyn Pahl Pilgrim to No Country by Anvesh Jain Frontenac House (2022) In his debut poetry collection, Pilgrim to No Country, Anvesh Jain promises to “pen the great ironies…
by Sharon Berg Toast Soldiers by Bruce Meyers Crowsnest Books (2021) Bruce Meyers is a prolific, award-winning writer. Every story in Toast Soldiers is both insightful and serious, with protagonists…
by Shelley McAneeley Five Little Indians by Michelle Good Harper Perennial (2020) Michelle Good reminds me of my grandfather and the time when storytellers spun words into magic. Five Little…
by Shelley McAneeley Meeting Thoreau at the Gas Station Diner by Marty Gervais Urban Farmhouse Press (2022) In the mid-to-late sixties, hippies and curious seekers took off to wherever, whatever,…