Everything is Shining By Jan David Madsen, reviewed by Emily Pittman Newberry

Everything is Shining By Jan David Madsen Lulu, 2016, 66 pages, $15 ISBN 978-1329812314 Available at https://www.lulu.com/ Author website: https://zestymumbles.com/ Reviewed by Emily Pittman Newberry When Carolyn Martin sent out a call for poets to write reviews of books, I scanned the list of books on the OPA website and was drawn to Everything is […]

Here From Somewhere Else by Judith Arcana, reviewed by Tricia Knoll

Here From Somewhere Else by Judith Arcana Left Fork Press, 2015, 26 pages, $10 ISBN 978-0692589526 Available at https://leftfork.org/books/ Reviewed by Tricia Knoll Judith Arcana’s chapbook Here From Somewhere Else was a perfect choice for the Turtle Island Quarterly’s 2015 Editor’s Prize. The press focuses on deepening connections to the natural world. The eighteen poems in the collection […]

Setting the Fires by Darlene Pagán, reviewed by Carolyn Martin

Setting the Fires by Darlene Pagán Airlie Press, 2015, $15.00 Reviewed by Carolyn Martin When Randall Jarrell defined a poet as someone “who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times,” he could have been describing Darlene Pagán. In Setting the Fires, lightning strikes this […]

Nice and Loud by Lois Rosen, reviewed by Susan Clayton Goldner

Nice and Loud by Lois Rosen Tebot Bach, 2015, $16.00 Reviewed by Susan Clayton Goldner Nice and Loud, a collection of beautifully crafted poetry by Lois Rosen, is authentic and yet tender. It is intimate, unselfconscious and introspective. Her story takes the reader into the world of a young Jewish girl growing up in a cramped, […]

a question of mortality by Susan Clayton Goldner, reviewed by Lois Rosen

a question of mortality by Susan Clayton Goldner Wellstone Press 2014 $15.00 Reviewed by Lois Rosen I first had the joy of meeting Susan Clayton-Goldner at a novel-writing workshop led by Marjorie Reynolds in Portland, Oregon years ago. Susan shone as an astute critic and author of family-centered mystery novels. She’s published three: Finding a Way […]

Avenida Uriburu by Michael Hanner, reviewed by Sara Burant

Avenida Uriburu by Michael Hanner Chandelier Galaxy Books, 2015 Available on Amazon.com for $6.00 plus s & h Reviewed by Sara Burant Perhaps not coincidentally I was reading Avenida Uriburu on a train. It was raining steadily. Outside, shapes and colors ran together. I forgot where I was then remembered a jacket I wore as […]

Ocean’s Laughter by Tricia Knoll, reviewed by Carolyn Martin

Reviewed by Carolyn Martin Ocean’s Laughter by Tricia Knoll Kelsay Books, Aldrich Press Hemet, California ISBN: 13: 978-0692541852 2016, $17.00, 102 pages (on Amazon) triciaknoll.com twitter:@ triciaknollwind Those who know and love the Oregon Coast will experience a delightful shock of recognition while reading Tricia Knoll’s Ocean’s Laughter. This rich and varied collection about Manzanita […]

Every Door Recklessly Ajar by Nancy Flynn, reviewed by Ann Staley

Reviewed by Ann Staley Every Door Recklessly Ajar By Nancy Flynn Cayuga Lake Books, Ithaca, New York ISBN 9781681110356 2015, 72 pp., $12 (on Amazon) Nancy Flynn.com Nancy Flynn’s slender volume of poems is filled with joy and mystery, grief and remembrance. It is the home of many pleasures, beginning with the zany, And I Will […]

Reverberations from Fukushima: 50 Japanese Poets Speak Out, reviewed by Ruthy Kanagy

Review by Ruthy Kanagy Reverberations from Fukushima: 50 Japanese Poets Speak Out Edited by Leah Stenson and Asao Sarukawa Aroldi Inkwater Press (Portland, Oregon) ISBN: 9781629010656 2014, 192pp., $14.95 3.11.11 is a date forever imprinted on the memories of Japanese and other persons who were in Japan on that fateful day. A massive tsunami launched […]
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