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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Reviewed by Carol Barrett The Goodbye Kit by Daneen Bergland Airlie Press, 2024, 64 pages, $18.00 ISBN 978-1-950404-15-5 Available at www.airliepress.org Daneen Bergland’s first book of poetry is a beautiful assembly of evocative poems, almost all of which have appeared individually in literary magazines. The first thing that greets the reader is gorgeous cover art
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Irene Cooper’s second book of poetry provides a stunning exploration of form, with the poems organized by section titles drawn from various psychological theories and experiments.
Sue Fagalde Lick’s book, Dining Al Fresco with My Dog, is the most distinctive collection of poems confronting the realities of widowhood that I have ever read.
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Reviewed by Carol Barrett Coming Down the Mountain by Gary Lark Kelsay Books, 2024, 103 pages, $23.00 ISBN 978-1-63980-652-2 Available at https://kelsaybooks.com; https://garylark.work Gary Lark is an Oregon poet through and through. Born here, and raised in the Umpqua Valley of Southern Oregon, he now lives in Grants Pass. Coming Down the Mountain, Lark’s latest
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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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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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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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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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Reviewed by John Martin Reading Wind by Carol Barrett The Poetry Box, 2024, 49 pages, $14.00 ISBN 978-1-956285-51-2 https://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/reading-wind So many of the poems that I read these days––including my own––are looking for their reason to be, trying to figure out what and why they are, hoping to make some meaning through the act
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