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Charlotte Pence Earthly Meditations: New and Selected Poemsby Robert WrigleyPenguin2006$20.00 The poet inclined to write about the family dog had better manipulate language like a MOMIX contortionist or offer the…

Nick Ripatrazone William Wright: Night Field Anecdoteby Williiam WrightLouisiana Literature Press201114.95 William Wright’s other recent release, Bledsoe, is an extended narrative focused on a single family, while Night Field Anecdote exists in a…

Carrie Meadows February was Black History Month, a fact that seemed to go largely unnoticed by folks in the news media who I thought might care a little more. A…

Phebe Davidson The chapbook occupies an interesting place in American Poetry these days. It used to be the first refuge of the beginning poet, a format that permitted the publication…

Haines Eason Off the Fire Roadby Greg WrennGreen Tower Press2008$7.00 Poet Greg Wrenn is classically attuned, but not in any classical sense. His first collection, the chapbook Off the Fire Road,…

Anna Ziegler It is no mistake that Terence Winch’s latest collection, Boy Drinkers, begins with a poem entitled “Comfort.” These lovely, human poems represent a search for just that, in a…

John Poch Many readers may see Christian Wiman’s new poems only through the lens of death and dying once they know of Wiman’s medical condition: he has a serious blood disease (and…

John Poch Phoenix Rising: The Next Generation of American Formal Poetsby Ed., Sonny WilliamsTextos Books2004$20 The folks who say you can’t judge a book by the cover know that, much…

Abigail Licad Richard Wilbur seems an anomaly in today’s largely postmodern, elliptical, elegiac, multicultural poetical climate. His fidelity to structured form and meter, heavy reliance upon classical antiquity, optimism, and…

Karla Huston The Blue Dressby Alison TownsendWhite Pine Press2000$14.95 The dilemma with this book is that every time I start to read it, I find myself putting it down to…

Karla Huston Plain-spoken without being plain, with language, simple, but not simpleminded, Bruce Taylor writes in a way that allows the reader, allows you in, invites you to sit down…

Diane Lockward Subject to Changeby Marilyn TaylorDavid Roberts Books2004$16.00 In this lively collection, Marilyn Taylor uses traditional forms but with a modern touch. We find sapphics, sonnets, villanelles, a rondeau,…