Marcelus’ Collection Promotes Self-Affirmation, Growth and Harmony Cheyenne Marcelus’ 2018 collection, Good To Me, is exactly what it says it is. Its poems chronicle a development of self-acceptance and self-preservation as it states on the cover. While the poems and … Continue reading Good For You Poetry
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
Melissa Menny Takes on Domestic Abuse, Mental Illness and Social Anxiety in this Collection The cover of Melissa Menny’s 2018 debut poetic collection, Mask Shavings, is rather deceptive. Bright neon butterflies seem to flutter invitingly at readers as they float … Continue reading Menny Offers Poetic Commentary on Social Issues
Atwood mourns love lost and celebrates love found. This review was originally published May 2019 for Vocal.Media. It have been subject to editing changes. Endless echoes of weary, despondent sighs are what reverberates in this 2011 poetry book, written by … Continue reading Love and Mourning
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
