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Latest Member Books

• Coming Down The Mountain by Gary Lark, Reviewed by Carol Barrett
• Raku, by Patricia Wixon, Reviewed by John Ruff
• I Remember Not Sleeping by Sherri Levine, Reviewed by Lana Hectman Ayers
• The Autobiography of Rain by Lana Hechtman Ayers, Reviewed by Cynthia Neely
• ekphrastics & eccentricities by M. Ann Reed, Reviewed by Cit Ananda
• Reading Wind by Carol Barrett, Reviewed by John Martin

Book Reviews

• Coming Down The Mountain by Gary Lark, Reviewed by Carol Barrett
  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… Read more: Coming Down The Mountain by Gary Lark, Reviewed by Carol Barrett
• Raku, by Patricia Wixon, Reviewed by John Ruff
  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… Read more: Raku, by Patricia Wixon, Reviewed by John Ruff
• I Remember Not Sleeping by Sherri Levine, Reviewed by Lana Hectman Ayers
  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… Read more: I Remember Not Sleeping by Sherri Levine, Reviewed by Lana Hectman Ayers
• The Autobiography of Rain by Lana Hechtman Ayers, Reviewed by Cynthia Neely
  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… Read more: The Autobiography of Rain by Lana Hechtman Ayers, Reviewed by Cynthia Neely
• ekphrastics & eccentricities by M. Ann Reed, Reviewed by Cit Ananda
  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,… Read more: ekphrastics & eccentricities by M. Ann Reed, Reviewed by Cit Ananda