Poetry: The House the Spirit Builds by Lorna Crozier

February 2, 2020 News Editor 0

Not a review, but a poem. It’s Lorna Crozier. What more do you need? Spirit Tree It’s the tree the stars find first (what would nest there?) the one the child in you dreams of climbing branches so thin perhaps you’re not a child yet but somehow smaller than a smoky shrew lighter than an eyelid on a feathered eye. From The House the Spirit Builds (Douglas & McIntyre) poems by Lorna Crozier, photography by […]

Poetry: Winter on an Autumn Day by Donny Barilla

January 16, 2020 admin 0

Whether it’s feelings of love, intimacy, or a special closeness, Donny Barilla maintains the feeling that death does not take these with him/her to the grave. In his latest collection, Winter on an Autumn Day, we discover that emotions and feelings outlast the flesh of the human body. Human intimacy draws near an enigmatic spiritual passion that conquers all on the prismatic scale of experience. When speaking of mythology, Donny Barilla says, that myths were […]

Poetry: A Burglar of the Better Sort: Poems, Dramatic Works, Theoretical Writings by Tytus Czyżewski

January 6, 2020 admin 0

The history of Poland, since the 18th century, has been marked by an almost unending struggle for survival. From 1795 through 1945, she was partitioned four times by her stronger neighbors, most of whom were intent on suppressing if not eradicating Polish culture. Because of this, it is maybe not so surprising that much of the great literature written in modern Poland has been politically and patriotically engaged. Yet there is a second current as […]

Poetry: In the Garden of Old Age by Nina Freedlander Gibans

December 31, 2019 admin 0

In the Garden of Old Age by Nina Freedlander Gibans is a series of poems about memory – collected ideas from a  life rich with continuous interactions — ideas and people, spaces and inner thoughts colliding daily in these summary years which pile up and tumble to the pages like leaves in fall. The poems are accompanied by the photographs of Abby Star. Nina is currently working on several new projects including another volume of […]

Family Album by Pedro Xavier Solis

December 16, 2019 admin 0

Living in Nicaragua is a world apart from the typical North American experience. You wake to birds that do not just twitter, but screech and trill entire multi-stanza songs. There are processions with tubas blasting, dogs always barking somewhere, firecrackers going off for any excuse of a holiday. And of course, everywhere the vegetative excess of the tropics, where vines with huge blue flowers don’t just cover a trellis, but instead the entire side of […]

Poetry: Purple Dawn by Edward V. Bonner

December 14, 2019 admin 1

The titles of Edward V. Bonner’s poetry suggest many ways in which these poems express his personal experiences and connect his thoughts to the universal search for true meanings of many of our realities. In Purple Dawn (Adelaide) most of the poems examine the themes of beauty and risk, pleasure and danger, in the context of one of three kinds of relationships: to romantic partners, to the spiritual world, and to the world of nature. […]

Poetry: A Concept of Right Now by J. Scott Walker

September 27, 2019 admin 0

A Concept of Right Now (Unsolicited Press) is a poetry collection that explores the tension between uncertainty and truth. It is a collection that exists where many elements of culture and society converge: the internal and external geographies of shared human experience. Blending narrative and lyrical modes, in a searching yet grounded voice, it is an attempt to reconcile and reveal what it means to be a person of the early 21st century.Paradox is a […]

This Just In… An Early Spring Day by Richard Hartley

September 12, 2019 admin 0

An Early Spring Day by Richard Hartley is an important collection of poems, written after the poet was diagnosed with temporal lobe epilepsy. Writing from the heart, with an honesty that is often raw and troubling, the writer looks at his past and at his present life with an open and microscopic examination of his feelings. Some of these poems may well force the reader to think of their own past and to examine their […]

Dealing: Tarot Poems and Pictures by David Wasserman

September 11, 2019 admin 0

In Dealing: Tarot Poems and Pictures (Unsolicited) Tiny Footcrunch author David Wasserman looks at the positives and negatives of each card through small, haiku-length poems. The book is illustrated by artist and Project Runway All-Star Helen Castillo who deals with exploring the Major Arcana through beautiful and haunting illustrations. This potent collaboration of poet and artist delivers a fresh approach to reading both the tarot and poetry. Dealing offers a combination of poem and illustration […]

New Today: Volcano by Elosham Vog

September 3, 2019 admin 0

The poems in Volcano (Unsolicited Press) work together to tell a story. For his whole life, F’s unnamed lover has had a volcano growing inside him, fueled by experiences such as interactions with an abusive father and repressed queerness. As his relationship with F sours, the volcano continues to grow and eventually manifests as a physical reality. Fearing the consequences of the now-real volcano, he sacrifices F to it, believing he has solved both problems […]