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  Vitals and Other Signs of Life by David A. Goodrum The Poetry Box, 2024, 108 pages, $18 ISBN 978-1-956285-63-5 Available at https://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/vitals David A. Goodrum’s debut collection, Vitals and Other Signs of Life, moves with the quiet awareness of someone slightly set apart—present in the room, or out in nature, but observing from the […]

Reviewed by Judith H. Montgomery Isadora: A Tragedy in Three Acts by Dale Champlin Just a Lark Books, 2022, 111 pages, $15.00 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8887573540 Available at https://www.amazon.com/Isadora-DaleChamplin/dp/B0B7HF2XCH/ref=sr_1_6? “The poem,” writes Robert Frost in 1939, “begins in delight and ends in wisdom.” Dale Champlin offers both in this fabulously imagined series of spirited “conversations”

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