Review of Molly Peacock’s “The Widow’s Crayon Box”
By Kathryn MacDonald The Widow’s Crayon Box by Molly Peacock W.W. Norton & Company (2025) The Widow’s Crayon Box is Molly Peacock’s eighth poetry book, and from the prologue poem…
Review of Leanne Shirtliffe’s “The Genius Hour Project”
By Kendall Bistretzan The Genius Hour Project by Leanne Shirtliffe Thistledown Press (2024) The Genius Hour Project is a middle-grade novel that follows eleven-year-old Frazzy, a quirky and scatterbrained girl…
Review of Julie Paul’s “Whiny Baby”
By Kim Fahner Whiny Baby by Julie Paul McGill-Queen’s University Press (2024) With a title that evokes childhood spats and quarrels, Julie Paul’s second book of poems, Whiny Baby, gets…
Review of Beatriz Hausner’s “She Who Lies Above”
By Giovanna Riccio She Who Lies Above by Beatriz Hausner Book*hug Press (2023) Hypatia of Alexandria—the 4th-century philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, teacher, and alchemist aptly embodied her name meaning “highest” or…
Review of Barbara Pelman’s “A Brief and Endless Sea”
By Tonya Lailey A Brief and Endless Sea by Barbara Pelman Caitlin Press (2023) The poems in A Brief and Endless Sea, Barbara Pelman’s fifth book of poetry, address a…
Review of Ariel Gordon’s “Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest”
By Michael Frey Fungal: Foraging in the Urban Forest by Ariel Gordon Wolsak and Wynn (2024) It’s all there in the subtitle, Foraging in the Urban Forest. In Ariel Gordon’s…
Review of Erina Harris’ “Trading Beauty Secrets with the Dead”
By Kathryn MacDonald Trading Beauty Secrets with the Dead by Erina Harris Wolsak & Wynn (2024) Academic and poet, Erina Harris, has several interests and concerns, many find their way…
Review of Lorri Neilsen Glenn’s “The Old Moon in Her Arms”
By Lori Hahnel The Old Moon in Her Arms: Women I Have Been and Known by Lorri Neilsen Glenn Nimbus Publishing (2024) Lorri Neilsen Glenn’s new book is a beautiful…
Review of Ben Berman Ghan’s “The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits”
By Samantha Purchase The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits by Ben Berman Ghan Wolsak & Wynn (2024) ‘Imagine’ opens Ben Berman Ghan’s expansive and timely novel, The Years Shall Run…
Review of Carmelo Militano’s “The Patina of Melancholy”
By Caterina Edwards The Patina of Melancholy by Carmelo Militano Ekstasis Editions (2023) Where does your need to make art come from? What sustains that urge when you are no…