Reviews 2009

Winter 2009

Celtic Pride Russell Buker on Claire Hersom's Drowning: A Poetic Memoir

A Laureate's Work Gerald George on Baron Wormser's Scattered Chapters: New and Selected Poems

Quiet Community George Magoon on Ellen Steinbaum's Container Gardening

Hope, Memory, Meaning Russell Buker on Jim Glen Thatcher's The Ur-Word

The Transparency of Windows Valerie Lawson on Jason Irwin's Watering the Dead

Dos escritoras Michael Brown on Lugar de Origen/Place of Origin by Elena Lafert and Melina Draper


Spring 2009

Catching Solja Krapu on To Catch Life Anew: 10 Swedish Women Poets, translated by Eva Claeson

She Is That Good Gerald George on Her Place in These Designs by Rhina Espaillat

Ah, Wilderness Russell Buker on Glad Wilderness by Geraldine Cannon

Exploring the Edges Carl Little on Balance: A Late Pastoral by Russell Libby

She Startles, She Comforts Sheila Mullen Twyman on A Darker, Sweeter String by Lee Sharkey

Four Part Journey Valerie Lawson on An Uncommon Accord by George Kraus, Marcia Arrieta, Pat Landreth Keller, and Michael Carman

Best Is Better Gerald George on Recall, New and Collected Poems, 1967-2008 by H.R. Coursen

Women's Chorus Michael Brown on Songs of Seasoned Women, edited by Patti Tana


Summer 2009

Above Sea Level: A Poet's Washington County Carl Little on Sea Level by Paul Nelson

Poetry Saved Me Gerald George on From the Front of the Classroom, New Poems by Elizabeth Thomas

The Penny Poet of Portsmouth Ellen Jane Powers on I Hear America Singing and Je ne regrette rien: Poemes nouveaux et retrouves by Robert Dunn

Carillons of Words Gerald George on The Other Side of Sorrow, Poets Speak Out about Conflict, War, and Peace, edited by Patricia Frisella and Cicely Buckley

Places Women Go Valerie Lawson on Grief Hut by Nancy Mitchell

In Your Dreams Sheila Mullin Twyman on Players in the Dream, Dreamers in the Play by Marian Kaplan Shapiro


Fall 2009

All the Right Moves Valerie Lawson on I Have Walked Through Many Lives: Young Voices—Scarborough edited by Bruce Spang

The Profligate and the Reverent Afaa Michael Weaver on Facing the Moon/ poems of Li Bai and Du Fu translated by Keith Holyoak.

Sartor Resartus Sharon Bray on Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems edited by Vasiliki Katsarou, Ruth O’Toole and Ellen Foos

Two New from Moon Pie Gerald George on Ordinary Time by Kevin Sweeney and A House of Bottles by Robin Merrill

The Poet and Her Source Michael Brown on Blood Soaked Dresses by Gloria Mindock


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