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Haines Eason Wanting in seriousness but not in any respects lacking for vivacious word-play, Kevin McFadden’s Hardscrabble is an honest, agile, yet at times bulky debut. It’s so ranging a collection that…

Magdelyn Hammond Shara McCallum’s first collection, The Water Between Us, may be a typical first book of poetry that moves through the torments and glories of growing up, but it is…

Isaac Cates Much madness is divinest sense, or so we are told. Sure, there are a few cliquish strains of methodical madness in contemporary poetry that seem to abnegate all…

Will Grofic Sarah Manguso’s book The Captain Lands in Paradise starts with an epigraph of the log of Christopher Columbus where upon Columbus sees a great harbor which could shelter “all the…

Zara Raab In a sense, Travelers with No Ticket Home is a study in ethnobotany, the ways people and their cultures relate to the plants in their environment, the plants in this…

Karla Huston In her debut collection, Laurie MacDiarmid, a Georgetown Review Press prize-winner for 2011, presents readers with narrative and lyrical poems that are compassionate and searing, poems that are…

Kristina Marie Darling In her second book of poems, It was a terrible cloud at twilight, Alessandra Lynch offers readers a complex understanding of childhood, in which misfortune and loss often…

Michele Balze James Longenbach’s collection of poetry, The Iron Key, follows two previous collections, Threshold and Fleet River.  Of Fleet River, I am most familiar.  That being said, while I have studied literary criticism with…

Sherry Chandler Eve’s Red Dressby Diane LockwardWind Publications2003$14 The poems in Eve’s Red Dress are about “Losing the Blues.” Like any honky-tonk girl on a Saturday night, Eve slips into her red…

Jacqueline Kolosov “Grace,” one of the first poems in the collection, is a poem of praise. Here the speaker praises ‘my plain young mother for leaving/her husband’s bed/…’ ‘the caked…

Carrie Meadows Sarah Lindsay’s Twigs & Knucklebones is an ambitious poetry collection, with its center section, “The Kingdom of Nab,” every bit as complex and substantive and satisfying as a stand-alone book…

Kristina Marie Darling Loveliest Grotesque, winner of the Kore Press First Book Award, introduces readers to Sandra Lim’s spare, lyrical poems, which examine such diverse subjects as romance, ruin, and…