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Rebecca Foust: Paradise Drive
Lee Rossi Rebecca Foust’s new book, Paradise Drive, the winner of the 2015 Press 53 Award for Poetry, is a diary in verse, reminiscent in subject and technique to Vikram Seth’s Golden…
Carta Marina: A Poem in Three Parts
Joelle Biele Mapmaking “We have not solved the problem of love, / have we?” asks Ann Fisher-Wirth in her book-length poem, Carta Marina. Fisher-Wirth, a professor of English and Environmental Studies at the…
Unmentionables
Isaac Cates Before radio, television, and the interstate highway, America’s many parts were more culturally distinct than they are today. Moreover, before careers in university creative-writing programs made most of…
Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest
John Poch B.H. Fairchild’s Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest had to be a daunting task not because of its one hundred twenty plus pages but because it follows Fairchild’s Art…
The North and South of It
Clarinda Harriss Moira Egan, Cleave, Washington Writers’ Publishing House, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., 2004, $12.00; and Carole Langille, Late in a Slow Time, The Mansfield Press, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2003. The North and South of…
Hockey Haiku: The Essential Collection
Bob Sillibus Not since Agamemnon and Menelaus tore down the walls of Troy have we been witness to such atrocities as Poch and Davidson inflict upon us in their new…
Consolation Miracle
John Poch Remember that scene from The Jerk where Steve Martin’s character is bankrupt and forced to leave his plush California estate? He says something like, “I don’t need anything…well, except this…
Femme Au Chapeau
Barbara Crooker One of the things I’ve been observing recently is that poets no longer seem to be constrained by either strict adherence to form or pigeon-holing (“formalist”); instead, many…
The Mystery of Max Schmitt: Poems on the Life and Work of Thomas Eakins
Karla Huston Thomas Eakins, a native of 19th Century Philadelphia and fairly true to his city (he studied abroad only briefly) is considered to be one of America’s greatest painters.…
Ballistics: Poems
Michele Balze Ballistics: Poemsby Billy CollinsRandom House201015 The dirty little secret about Billy Collins’ poetry is it is hilarious. I have always found his poetry amusing, but in person, the…