Re- by Andrea Blancas Beltran / Redbird Chapbooks / 2018 Andrea Blancas Beltran’s chapbook, Re-, is a beautiful, textured collection of poems centered around her grandmother’s memory loss, and her own grief. “Re-”, the simple prefix meaning “back” or “again,” serves well as a title with which to gather these poems, for without an attachment it has a blank emptiness to it, … [Read more...]
Book Review – In Whatever Light Left to Us by Jessica Jacobs
In Whatever Light Left To Us by Jessica Jacobs / Sibling Rivalry Press / ISBN: 978-1-943977-19-2 / 44 pages / 2016 Jessica Jacob’s In Whatever Light Left to Us, is a chapbook infused with the sensual world. Bring your fingers to your lips after turning the page. This is poetry you can taste, and touch: poetry as incandescence of the ordinary world, a transformation of … [Read more...]
