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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Reviewed by Dale Champlin Jacob’s Ladder by Rachel Barton Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2024, $18.00 ISBN 978-1-59948-992-6 Available at https://mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/jacobs-ladder-rachel-barton/ The poetry in Rachel Barton’s latest book, Jacob’s Ladder, takes the reader, rung-by-rung, up into a not-so-everyday world of wonder. It’s as if the poet views even the most mundane as an opportunity
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Reviewed by Carol Barrett The Ferry Keeper by Judith H. Montgomery Grayson Books, 2024, 43 pages, $12.00 ISBN 979-8-9888186-9-4 Available at https://graysonbooks.com Judith H. Montgomery’s latest collection, The Ferry Keeper, opens with a stunning metaphor that enlightens the entire volume. The poet’s body becomes a ferry transporting loved ones to the other side of this
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Reviewed by Ce Rosenow Noble Scratch, Roughly Spoken by Brad Winter and Laura Winter As If Press, 2024, 60 pages Limited edition: 150 copies numbered Order from the authors at [email protected]. Finally! That was my response when I learned Brad and Laura were collaborating on a book. I’ve known the Winters since the mid-90s, and
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Reviewed by Shirley Marc The Last Hippy Poet of the Woodstock Generation, a psychedelic memoir and narrative verse by C. Steven Blue Sunset West Publishing Group, 2023, 642 pages, $24.99 ISBN 978-0997997507 Available at: amazon.com Facebook author page: www.facebook.com/cstevenbluepoet Amazon author page: amazon.com/author/cstevenblue C. Steven Blue’s The Last Hippy Poet of the Woodstock Generation is
Finishing Line Press, 2020, 40 pages, $14.99ISBN: 1646622901Available at https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/small-feather-by-jade-rosina-mccutcheon/https://www.amazon.com/Small-Feather-Jade-Rosina-McCutcheon/dp/1646622901 The cover of Jade Rosina McCutcheon’s chapbook immediately caught my eye. Within a kaleidoscope of doodled line and color, a thought bubble speaking for the soul of the work declares, I AM Still Here. Within a few hours, I was at the book’s end, where
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Linda Ferguson’s newest chapbook, Not Me: Poems About Other Women, is now available for preorder from Finishing Line Press.
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Dianne Stepp announces the publication of her third chapbook collection, “The Nest’s Dark Eye,” from Finishing Line Press.
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Hysterical Cake, Amy Baskin’s first chapbook, was published by Dancing Girl Press in late December of 2021…
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Beth Bonness’s chapbook “Transition Thunderstorms” was released by The Poetry Box on April 15th. The chapbook is “A collection of poems from inside the mind of someone having a series of unexplained strokes and other life events soaking you to the bone.” To purchase a copy, go to https://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/thunderstorms.
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