With controlled rhythms and a self-reflexive sense of the poet as lyricist, Smith’s eleventh book of poems, Messenger, finds revelation in music. The book’s first section, Savor of Moss, casts lyrical moments of grace against a... Read More

There’s something called dramatic verisimilitude which might be regarded as a combination of Coleridge’s “willing suspension of disbelief” and Aristotle’s maxim in his Poetics that “the poet should prefer probable... Read More

With the publication of Adcock’s latest book of poems, Texas cowboys will have to make room for another recognizable state figure: the poet. Intervale brings together more than two decades of Adcock’s poetry, work that pays homage to... Read More

Many of America’s great works of art dive headlong into the river of homegrown folklore for inspiration. Extending what Pete Seeger termed the “folk process,” Forbes appears so steeped in idioms and mythos of Blues and, by... Read More

“The year was 1959 and I was on my way to Capetown, South Africa, for an adventure that would change my life.” In the language of a tale told many years after the fact, Turner describes the outline of a 11,000 mile trip that took him... Read More