December 2024

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Raku, by Patricia Wixon, Reviewed by John Ruff

Reviewed by John Ruff Raku by Patricia Wixon, edited by Vincent Wixon and Amy Miller Cyclone Press, 2024, 73 pages, $15 ISBN 9798340757456 Available on Amazon   Raku, Patricia Wixon’s fifth book of poems, was unfinished when she died at her home in Ashland, Oregon, this past July after a prolonged illness. Just days prior

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I Remember Not Sleeping by Sherri Levine, Reviewed by Lana Hectman Ayers

Reviewed by Lana Hectman Ayers I Remember Not Sleeping by Sherri Levine (author), Moises Camacho (Illustrator) Fernwood Press, 2024, 64 pages, $28 ISBN 978-1594981395 Available at https://www.fernwoodpress.com/2024/08/05/i-remember-not-sleeping/ and sherrilevine.com   A hybrid of poem, memoir, literary quotes, and graphic novel, I Remember Not Sleeping is an extraordinary collaboration between Oregon poet Sherri Levine and Mexico-born

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The Autobiography of Rain by Lana Hechtman Ayers, Reviewed by Cynthia Neely

Reviewed by Cynthia Neely The Autobiography of Rain by Lana Hechtman Ayers Fernwood Press (an imprint of Barclay Press), 2024, 134 pages, $19 ISBN 978-1594981388 Available at https://barclaypress.corecommerce.com/the-autobiography-of-rain.html     Lana Hechtman Ayers, in the The Autobiography of Rain, her sixth collection of poetry, claims not to be a painter. To a point, I gently disagree. A large

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ekphrastics & eccentricities by M. Ann Reed, Reviewed by Cit Ananda

Reviewed by Cit Ananda  ekphrastics & eccentricities by M. Ann Reed Kelsay Books, 2023, 63 pages, $20.00 ISBN 978-1-63980-400-9 Available at www.kelsaybooks.com   On her trek teaching and learning around the world, capturing moments in disparate places such as Wales, Ukraine, Bosnia-Herzegovina, China, Idaho and Minnesota, M. Ann Reed unveils, through art and idiosyncratic occasions,

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