Riddle, Fish Hook, Thorn, Key by Kelly Terwilliger Airlie Press, Portland, OR ISBN-13 978-0989579964 2017, 79 pp., $16.00 Reviewed by Anita Sullivan When you pick up a copy of this remarkable book, stop! Look at the...

No Acute Distress by Jennifer Richter Southern Illinois University Press ISBN-13 #978-0809334827 2016, 67 pp, $15.95 Author website: www.jenniferrichterpoet.com Reviewed by Tiah Lindner Raphael From Disease to Ease: Transforming Pain into Resilience Jennifer Richter’s second full-length collection,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Review by Lois Rosen High-Voltage Lines by Tiel Aisha Ansari Barefoot Muse Press 2012 ISBN-13:978-615663760 Paperback: 40 pages Tiel Aisha Ansari’s poetry collection, High-Voltage Lines, lives up to its name. Like the conduits delivering strong...

Review by Penelope Scambly Schott Just This, Tanka by Margaret Chula, Mountains and Rivers Press, 2013 92 pages, $16.00 Imagine there is someone standing in front of you with a lifted hand and upstretched fingers. Two...

Woodstock Baby by Joan Dobbie The Unforgettables Press ([email protected]) ISBN 978-1-4923138-3-0 2013, $9.00 Joan Dobbie's Woodstock Baby is described on its cover as a Novel in Poetry, and while it is not technically a verse...

  Review by Penelope Scambly Schott The Parachute Jump Effect by Judith Arcana Uttered Chaos Press (www.utteredchaos.org) ISBN 978-0-9823716-9-5 2012, $10.00 Unless you are of a certain age and grew up in Chicago, you won’t understand...

Review by Penelope Scambly Schott Controlled Hallucinations by John Sibley Williams FutureCycle Press ISBN 978 - 1938853227 2013, 78 pp., $14.00 http://johnsibleywilliams.wordpress.com This book is well-titled. It contains the poetry of allusion. Williams’ go-to symbols are...