Peter Jastermsky’s Collection is Touching and Touches All Who Encounter It Steel Cut Moon is a collection of haiku and senryu “…held together / by sparrows” that is minute in terms of physical measure but not in poetic aptitude. Published … Continue reading A Little Poetry Speaks Volumes
Lynch Serves Up Flavorful Verses Good poetry provides everything “…we need: mouth, / anus and blind heart / slugging away steadily / in its cage,” but exemplary poems fuse the elements fantastic: metamorphosis, unnatural abilities of omnipotence and the capacity … Continue reading Poetry of Beautiful Abandon
Vegetable Preparation Has Never Been So Blood Thirsty This review was publish May 4th, 2018 on Vocal.Media. It may have been subject to editing changes. Lauren Scharhag’s 2013 publication, West Side Girl & Other Poems, is her first and only … Continue reading Praise for Lauren Scharhag’s First Collection of Poems [FULL REVIEW]
A Tragedy of American Proportions in Verse Open this collection, so beautifully adorned with unimaginable blue clouds, and slip into a vacuum of unrelenting sadness. This sadness is not colored beige or “…crystal-blue automatic…” but is a sound. Not just … Continue reading Sucker Hole Sucks Readers In
The poet and reader become one in this collection The book is almost feral in its honesty, with no cares for the polite society of man. Because to feel every emotional pang brought on by this poetry, the speaker demands … Continue reading Art Imitates Life in Snyder’s Work
