Book Reviews

Reviewed by Carolyn Martin Keeping It All Afloat by Ingrid Wendt Moonpath Press, 2026, 58 pages, $16.99 ISBN 978-1-970256-10-9 Available at https://www.moonpathpress.com/IngridWendt.htm and through local independent booksellers. The American poet Galway Kinnell once described poetry as “somebody standing up and saying, with as little concealment as possible, what it is for him or her to […]

  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 Paul Telles Conference of the Crows by Francis Opila Just a Lark Books, 2023, 105 pages, $15 ISBN 979-8890345523 Available at https://francisopila.com/books/ In his debut collection, Portland poet Francis Opila engages the landscape of the Pacific Northwest with an endearing intimacy that brings a fresh perspective to familiar environmental themes. Throughout the book’s

Reviewed by M. L. Lyons The Stafford Challenge Anthology: 2024-25 Anthology Edited by Brian Rohr Wild Poet Press, 2025, 257 pages, $22.95 Print ISBN: 979-8-9985119-0-5 Ebook ISBN: 979-8-9985119-1-2 Available at https://wildpoetpress.com/anthology/ Some anthologies are like bouquets: artfully arranged around a theme to create a desired effect. Others explore a new field of interest, giving a

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