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Janet McCann V: WaveSon.nets / Losing L’unaby Stephanie StricklandPenguin2002$18.00 Stephanie Strickland’s poetry collection, V, is a wild ride in a new direction. It explores woman’s essence as she intersects with science,…

Clare Banks A. E. Stallings’ poems in Hapax, her second full-length collection, are striking in form and subject. Many pair contemporary formalism with allusions to Greek mythology. This intersection of form…

Matthew Campbell Roberts For William Stafford readers, the long awaited release of Another World Instead offers insights into the shaping of one of America’s most prolific poetic voices. From 1937-1947 arrives a…

Ann Kolakowski In an interview published earlier this year, Elizabeth Spires was asked how her work has matured since the publication of her first book of poetry in 1981. She…

John Poch In Lisa Russ Spaar’s new book, though never mentioned by name, Persephone is the presiding genius. Persephone’s presence is felt severely, mostly in meditation of the Underworld or…

Walter Bargen A Saturday at the Flying Dog, winner of the1998 Field Poetry Prize, is a quantum leap into a universe not found in Southwick’s first two books, The Night Won’t…

Christian Anton Gerard “Have I reached the end of the world? / Or Indiana?” Bruce Snider asks at the end of the ghazal titled “Map,” the poem which begins his…

Ravi Shankar Poetry and Moral Vision: A Symposiumby Ravi Shankar2003 Aftereffects of downpour lingered as mist in the early autumn afternoon at Connecticut College, neo-gothic buildings looming in groomed lawns…

Dan Pinkerton Kaia Sand: intervalby Kaia SandEdge Books2004$10 Political poems tend to sag under the weight of their agendas. The poet’s sense of outrage filters in, burdening the poem with…

Will Grofic Matthew Rohrer’s debut collection, Hummock of Malookas, bristles with wonder and vitality. The straight and simple subject/verb sentences gives off no highfalutin airs. With the repetition of luminous forks and…

Wynn Yarbrough Poems about Washington, D.C.Edited by Kim RobertsPlan B Press in conjunction with Beltway Poetry Quarterly  One would not have to be out of touch to have a disdain…

Sonja James Buried in the Mind’s Backyard (James review)by W.M. RiveraBrickHouse Books200120 W.M. Rivera is a poet with a distinctive relationship to his own unconscious mind and the memories housed…