Review of Chris Hutchinson’s “Lost Signal”
By Catherine Owen Lost Signal by Chris Hutchinson Palimpsest Press (2025) If you don’t have an ear for the music of language, why do you write poems? This, the confused…
Review of Kim Fahner’s “The Pollination Field”
By Kathryn MacDonald The Pollination Field by Kim Fahner Turnstone Press (2025) The Pollination Field by Kim Fahner gifts lovers of bees and devotees of folklore (perhaps the first of…
Review of Monica Kidd’s “The Crane”
By Jonathan Greenbaum The Crane by Monica Kidd Breakwater Books (2025) Over the years several Canadian novelists have written about Americans who fled to Canada to evade the draft in…
Review of Bianca Lakoseljac’s “Silence is Full of Sound”
By Carmelo Militano Silence is Full of Sound by Bianca Lakoseljac Ekstasis Editions (2025) “You must be still in order to hear and see.” – Emily Carr Set at the beginning…
Review of Marco Melfi’s “Routine Maintenance”
By Vivian Hansen Routine Maintenance by Marco Melfi Gaspereau Press (2025) Marco Melfi’s debut poetry collection, Routine Maintenance, brings the routine into play as observance – a significant meditation on…