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Micro Review: A Murmuration of Starlings
This summer I hope to catch up on a lot of poetry books I’ve been meaning to read over the last year, or more, but haven’t gotten to for the usual reasons. School’s not out just quite yet, but I still...
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Micro Reviews: Freshly Rooted, and Pity the Drowned Horses
I just finished Emily Wall’s Freshly Rooted and Sheryl Luna’s Pity the Drowned Horses, and as distinct as the poetry in each is, I’m struck by their similarities. Both have a rich relationship to...
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Micro Review: Here, Bullet
Brian Turner’s Here, Bullet has received a lot of recognition since it won the 2005 Beatrice Haley Award (and since then a host of others) and published the same year. And rightfully so. The poetry is...
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Micro Review: Legacy
Just a few days ago I received a slim package from Jane Levin, a contributor to Terrain.org’s current issue and a seasonal resident–this year, at least–of the Sonoran desert. The package arrived from...
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Micro Review: Genius Loci
Over the last two years, my writer’s mind has been so attuned to creative nonfiction that the poetry bug, mostly, hasn’t been there. And though I’ve read more than a dozen books of poetry this year,...
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Micro Review: What Narcissism Means to Me
Tony Hoagland’s third book of poetry, What Narcissism Means to Me, has been sitting on my shelf since I purchased a signed copy following his reading at the AWP conference in Austin back in 2005. Three...
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Micro Review: Sure Signs
I suppose I picked up Sure Signs: New and Selected Poems by Ted Kooser at some AWP conference, because while the book was published in 1980, my copy is crisp and clean (excepting my recent reading of...
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