Mesmerizinlgy Sadly Beautiful by Matthew Lippman / Four Way Books / 978-1945588488 / 64 pages / March 2, 2020 The award-winning poet, Matthew Lippman, has won yet another award, this time … [Read more...]
Giant Steps: Fifty poets reflect on the Apollo 11 moon landing and beyond, reviewed by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro
Giant Steps: Fifty poets reflect on the Apollo 11 moon landing and beyond, edited by Paul Munden and Shane Strange /Recent Works Press / Canberra, Australia / 2019 / 101 pages / … [Read more...]
out of emptied cups by Anne Casey, reviewed by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro
out of emptied cups by Anne Casey / Salmon Poetry / 2019 / 978-1-912561-74 / 101 pages The title of Anne Casey’s second collection of poetry, out of emptied cups, is drawn from the … [Read more...]
Bully Love by Patricia Colleen Murphy, reviewed by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro
Bully Love by Patricia Colleen Murphy / Press 53 / 978-1-950413-03-4 / 2019 Patricia Colleen Murphy’s second poetry collection, Bully Love, has already won the Press 53 Award for Poetry, and I’m … [Read more...]
The short story of you and I by Richard James Allen, reviewed by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro
The short story of you and I by Richard James Allen / UWA Publishing / 2019 / 112 pages / 9781760800215 “My poems are sleeping in these pages / waiting for you to rouse them,” Richard James Allen, … [Read more...]
The Seed
The sun beat down on my parents’ black Olds as they drove south to their honeymoon in Florida. It was 1937. My father could easily have afforded a new car which cost $540 then. He made plenty of money … [Read more...]
Under His Roof
At 19, just out from under my father’s roof, I was in an antique shop, a secondhand shop really, eyeing a copper teakettle. “Sit!” the owner said sharply. I sat. Then I saw a large dog, a … [Read more...]
