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Instructions For Preparing Your Skin by Ariana Nadia Nash
Winner of the 2011 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, Instructions for Preparing Your Skin, Ariana Nadia Nash’s first full-length collection recalls Denise Duhamel’s early work, especially the smart,...
View ArticleThe Inside of an Apple by Joshua Beckman
In his introduction to Things Are Happening (Copper Canyon, 1998), Gerald Stern describes Beckman’s early verse as “figurative or metaphysical encounters done with concrete and ordinary language...
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Soul in Space by Noelle Kocot
Soul in Space, Kocot’s sixth collection, takes its title from Randall Jarrell’s “Seele im Raum,” a poem filled with negation and second-guesses, delivered by a presumably female speaker grappling with...
View ArticleLight and Heavy Things: Selected Poems of Zeeshan Sahil
In a fantastic 25-point review, Nicolle Elizabeth writes that Pakistani poet Zeeshan Sahil’s compact, uncomfortable lyrics operate in a fairly straightforward way: “It was a sunny day and now here is...
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A Crown for Gumecindo by Laurie Ann Guerrero
What lies at the heart of the heroic crown? A sequence of fourteen linked sonnets, the final line from each repeating as the first line of the next, the heroic crown, or sonnet redoublé, extends the...
View ArticleNational Poetry Month Day 22: Diego Báez
American Marine It’s not a minivan’s bumper sticker advertising Semper Fi, not the neighbor boy, or your nephew, tu sobrino, not that former classmate, the poor kid with something to prove, this...
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