Reviewed by Carol Barrett REVOKE by Joy Manesiotis Airlie Press, 2023, 67 pages, $18.00 ISBN 978-1-950404-12-4 Available at www.airliepress.org Growing up, I often heard the phrase “betwixt and between.” It seems an apt way to describe the themes of Manesiotis’ poems in REVOKE. The subjects of this work include the poet’s contending with infertility and […]
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Reviewed by Carol Barrett Splitting Open the World by Carolyn Martin The Poetry Box, 2025, 95 pages, $18.00 ISBN 978-1-956285-93-2 Available with free S/H at [email protected] Carolyn Martin’s sixth book of poems claims its title from a famous quotation by Muriel Rukeyser: “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
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The Oregon Poetry Association in partnership with The Arts Center of Corvallis is celebrating national poetry month with a special poetry night on Thursday, April 17th, 2025, 5:30- 7:30p, featuring these MFA poets from Oregon State University: Elyssa Cook, Anmol Priya Desai, Cheyenne Hollowell, Monique Lanier, Sam Olson, and Tor Strand. You can find out
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The meaning of our lives may occur to us through memory, sensory snapshots of significant moments: a mattress upended by the curb, hair lost through chemotherapy caught in a brush, the light fragrance of lavender powder on a handkerchief. In “I Know These Things” award-winning poet Cynthia Jacobi chronicles scenes from her own life, from
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