The wonderful thing about Deborah Pease’s poems is that readers always know where they are. She leads to her landscapes with a sure hand—her poems open with the physical, with a true sense of place. A “boy sits on a rock,”... Read More

Jennifer O’Grady’s first collection deservedly won the Midlist First Series Award for Poetry. It is a slim volume, which reveals a wide range of interests and perspectives of her writer’s universe. She moves easily from the work of... Read More

Enthusiasm for this collection stems as much from the manner in which these poems are structured as from their subject matter. In Minnie Bruce Pratt’s Walking Back Up Depot Street we meet one of the most perceptive characters to... Read More

In the first section of this new book of poems, Homage to Longshot O’Leary, Reginald Gibbons explores his life and times, aware of the small, tender moments, but willing to grab for the mythical or political, or both—see “The Hell... Read More

Like other of the poets of the New York School of Poetry, Lewis? work exhibits an urban sense of place, self-conscious sophistication, a playful sense of linguistic wit and a flirtation with French Surrealism. Of these, his sense of... Read More

As runner-up for Poetry Society’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, this is a beautiful narrative poem about Annie Taylor, the intrepid woman who, for the first time, shot Niagara Falls in 1901. It is a wonderful book; fresh and... Read More

Despite the simplistic writing style, Water’s memoir will fascinate two diverse readers: members of the art and literary world hungry for stories about such people as Mabel Dodge Luhan, Leon Gaspard and Dorothy Brett; and avid fans of... Read More

Those among us who admire Berry are always pleased to see his poems come to print because he is a poet who does more than apply fine poetic craft to the page. He also lives the language and the lifestyle he creates for the page.... Read More