Reviewed by Sarah Appleton
The Bees Have Been Canceled: Poems
Poems by Maya Catherine Popa
New Michigan Press, February 15, 2017
$9.00; 48 pp.
ISBN: 978-1934832592
You Always Wished ...
Review: Two Chapbooks by Maya Catherine Popa
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There is No Place for Grief in a House that Serves the Muse
Bike made of trees,
water made of bike.
Deep in the sunblink
you invite me, pull
remnants from the creek
where you drowned
a pinto ...
Two Poems by Alyse Knorr
LAR Online, Poetry
Translated by Cady Vishnaic
Translator’s Note
It’s easy to interpret this story of family abandonment as a thinly veiled account of Yente Serdatsky’s own abandonment (and later reconciliation) with her husband ...
Without a Place by Yente Serdatsky
LAR Online, Translations
Reviewed by Tim Lantz
Nature Documentary
Poems by Noah Cicero
House of Vlad Productions, February 2018
Paperback: $10.00; ebook: $2.99; 108 pp.
ISBN: 978-1979791557
A nature documentarian’s goal is ...
Review: Nature Documentary by Noah Cicero
Book Reviews, LAR Online, Poetry
After we lost the child, a hole appeared between your lungs. At first it was the size of a gasp, an apple, a fist. Then it widened into the size of a plate, a small face. We had read about this sort of thing ...
The Child Puts Apples into the Mouth of the Tree by Claire Wahmanholm
LAR Online, Poetry
Reviewed by A.N. DeJesús
Let’s All Die Happy
Poetry by Erin Adair Hodges
University of Pittsburgh Press, October 2017
$15.95, 112 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-0822965145
Erin Adair Hodges’ poems are ...
Review: Let’s All Die Happy by Erin Adair Hodges
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Cenotaph
In a chance encounter, a stranger who knew you in your Mordovian evacuation, described the horrible hunger, and described you as a hungry boy who always carried a book.
1.
On this ...
Two Poems by Valzhyna Mort
LAR Online, Poetry
Translated by Caroline Wilcox Reul
watch the earth through lenses
cut on distant planets,
lost from a massive freighter
during a flyover, unnoticed
by all earthly monitors, perhaps a hatch
or double door left ...
Two Poems by Carl-Christian Elze
LAR Online, Poetry, Translations
Reviewed by Ronnie K. Stephens
Open Your Mouth Like a Bell
Poems by Mindy Nettifee
Write Bloody Publishing, April 2018
$14.08, 100 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-1938912832
Open Your Mouth Like a Bell is the second ...
Review: Open Your Mouth Like a Bell by Mindy Nettifee
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