Book Review
The Glass Tree
by Olivia Boler
In her third poetry collection, "The Glass Tree", Laura Davies Foley achieves a faultless marriage of the personal and universal. Foley shares her grief over her husband’s death, her pleasure in her children, and the personal rewards...
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Storm Farmer
by Olivia Boler
In her debut poetry collection, "Storm Farmer", Tracey Gass Ranze reflects upon the details of her world with passion and an underlying sense of joy. Whether she’s writing about the connection she feels to the Delaware River, which...
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Five Foot Voice
by Olivia Boler
Poet Alise Versella is barely into her twenties, yet the majority of the poems she has crafted in her debut collection use fresh imagery and resist clichés. Even though she is young, she does not take her youth for granted, as shown in...
Book Review
Your Words
by Olivia Boler
Leonard Gigliobianco’s debut poetry collection, "Your Words", is a contribution to postmodernism that is at once challenging and enigmatic. The poems cover much ground—global warming, rivers, politics—and yet remain open to...
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40+ Love
by Olivia Boler
In the debut collection 40 + Love, poet Mi Sook Park Westman celebrates the changes swirling through her life, and there are many. Raw from the recent termination of her seventeen-year marriage, she finds herself blessedly in love once...
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Count Edweird LeFang's Rhymin' Halloween
by Olivia Boler
The old saw about not judging a book by its cover comes to mind when a reader picks up poet Eddie Morales’s spooky Count Edweird Lefang’s Rhymin’ Halloween and sees a cartoonish vampire, more reminiscent of Count Dracula than...
Book Review
It Only Happens Now and Then...
by Olivia Boler
Born in 1935, in Brooklyn, New York, Mary P. Hamilton grew up with a positive attitude in a warm, tightly knit, Irish-American family. Her memoir reflects just how fortunate her life has been: She regales readers with stories of her two...
Book Review
Spellbound
by Olivia Boler
Spellbound, Elizabeth A. Lewis’s debut fantasy novel, is ambitious in scope. It chronicles the adventures of several teenage heroes and heroines, collectively known as Story Keepers or Riders of Earth, as they do battle against...