Carol Smallwood Interviews Judith Skillman
Judith Skillman’s poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart, Best of the Web, the UK Kit Award, and is included in Best Indie Verse of New England to mention just a few honors of this prominent American poet and translator. Her work has appeared in many...
OUTSIDE/INSIDE, Book Review
OUTSIDE/INSIDE …just outside the art world’s inside by Martha King Blaze VOX Books Kenmore, NY ISBN: 978-1-60964-314-0 Copyright 2018 480 pages/Paperback $20.00 on Amazon by Mike Foldes ...
Real Life/Poetry Review
Taking the Temperature of the 21st Century Climate 6x9 Paperback 232 Pages Published by Omnidawn, 2018 ISBN-10: 1632430576 ISBN-13: 978-1632430571 Price: $14.62 on Amazon Review by Emily Vogel Poetry Editor [dropcap style="font-size: 46px;...
Ronald Primeau/Poetry Review
In the Measuring by Carol Smallwood Shanti Arts, 2018. Brunswick, Maine 116 pages, $14.95, paperback. Available on Amazon. Review by Ronald Primeau t is often said that we cannot measure what is real, what...
The Magician’s Trick/Bill Mesce, Jr.
Photo by Rob Potter on Unsplash *** The Magician's Trick: Telling, Not Showing by Bill Mesce, Jr. ossibly one of the most cited maxims in writing is, “Show, don’t tell.” And like most writing maxims,...
Emily Vogel/Book Review
The Infinite Doctrine of Water by Michael T. Young Series: Terrapin Poetry Paperback: 96 pages Publisher: Terrapin Books (April 1, 2018) Language: English ISBN-10: 1947896016 ISBN-13: 978-1947896017 $5.99 Kindle/$12.99 Paperback from AMAZON Review by Emily...
In Hubble’s Shadow/Book Review
In Hubble’s Shadow by Carol Smallwood Shanti Arts, 2017, Brunswick, Maine 98 pages, $14.95, paperback https://www.amazon.com/ Review by Jennifer L. Dean he early 90s were exciting and troubling...
Jim Feast/Book Review
border crossings by Thaddeus RutkowskiPaperback, 6"x9"96 pagesSensitive Skin BooksISBN: 978-1977850898$12.95 by Jim Feast There is a poem called “Border Crossings” in a new book of the same name by Thaddeus Rutkowski. It’s a...
Hunger and Hallelujahs book review
Hunger and Hallelujahs by Philip Elliott Fiction Big Pond Rumours Press, 2018 $10.00 (Canadian), 22 page ISBN: 978-0-9959662-3-9 Reviewed by Charles Rammelkamp he unnamed Irish girl at the heart of...
Henry Giroux’s Summer Critical Reading List
Henry Giroux’s Critical Reads in the Age of the American Nightmare By Henry A. Giroux Contributing Editor t is hard to imagine a more urgent moment for developing a language of critique...
Paul Sohar on John Amen’s “… Overwhelm”
“Illusion of an Overwhelm” by John Amen New York Quarterly Books First Edition 72 Pages Paperback ISBN-10: 1630450480 ISBN-13: 978-1630450489 By Paul Sohar It was no illusion, but a real “overwhelm” that this reader experienced going over John Amen’s latest...
Judith Skillman/RD Armstrong Review
Orphaned Words: Forgotten Poems from a Haphazard Life by RD Armstrong $20.00 USD + shipping, 246 pp A Review by Judith Skillman In RD Armstrong’s Orphaned Words, we find a rare honesty, beginning with the poet’s forward: “If it weren’t for...
The Drunkards/Book Review
“The Drunkards” by L.M. Rivera Omnidawn Publishing Copyright 2018 ISBN 1632430541, 9781632430540 144 Pages $11.93 Review by Emily Vogel L.M. Rivera’s new collection of poetry, “The Drunkards” is first of all predicated upon and associated with numerous notions and...
The Second O of Sorrow/Review
The Second O in Sorrow Format: Kindle Edition Size of the file: 552 KB Number of pages in the print edition: 104 pages Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd. (April 10, 2018) Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l. English language ASIN: B07BTDVZ84 ...
Books for Long Nights/Reviews
About Consciousness by Heath Brougher (ISBN #1974100529) 2017 46 pages, 12" x 8.5", paperback, full color ($14.99) Alien Buddha Press. Middleton, DE (https://alienbuddhapress.com/) About Consciousness by Heath Brougher Review by Eli T. Mond ...
Prisms, Particles, and Refractions/Book Review
Prisms, Particles, and Refractions by Carol Smallwood Finishing Line Press, 2017 85 pp. $18.99 www.finishinglinepress.com Reviewed by Judith Skillman arol Smallwood’s new collection, Prisms, Particles,...
Summer Reading for the Fall
Summer's Over, but Don't Let That Stop You... from burying yourself in these fine reads by Mike Foldes Took awhile to get enough traction to settle down and actually plow through anything but a few hundred emails containing repetitive updates on...
Carol Smallwood/Book Review
Meter is often challenging for any poet to handle and it is discussed with easy to understand examples, definitions. It has the best chapter on meter I’ve run across and should help even the most timid poet—or even those accomplished in using it.