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
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
Drax is Unafraid to Play with Poetry Change is a constant in this 2019 collection from Latasha Drax. She constantly experiments with form throughout Metamorphosis of Rhythm but still retains her unique voice as a poet. She plays quite a … Continue reading Change as a Constant
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]
