Poems Online:
Common-place 1 2
Gutcult 1 2 3 4 5
Double Room 1 2 Talk
The Diagram
Shampoo
Broadsided Press poem (pdf) & talk
Reviews Online:
See Through
Frances Richard
Four Way Books, $14.95 (paper)
Frances Richard’s first collection offers great sonic pleasure without the sense of atavism that often haunts today’s more overtly musical poetry. See Through is rich, not stuffy; it is fine, not rarefied. The poems here often read like responses to queries posed to a newly-roused and malleable consciousness… read more:Boston Review (scroll down)
Otherhood
Reginald Shepherd
University of Pittsburgh Press, $12.95 (paper)
Readers familiar with Reginald Shepherd’s work will come to Otherhood, his fourth book, having witnessed the deepening of his sensibility and poetic over the last ten years. Otherhood’s opening lines, “We’re walking with the backwards / river, sluggish water dialects / spell out spilled lakefront’s / tumbledown babble of dressed / stones,” present a thick, articulate music beyond the chords of Shepherd’s earlier work… read more: Boston Review
Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Love Poems by Younger American Poets
edited by Brett Fletcher Lauer and Aimee Kelley
Verse Press, $19.95 (paper)
Filled with well-armed poets and wrapped in a pink cover, this anthology is the perfect Trojan Horse to infiltrate those twin citadels of predictable poetry: weddings and Valentine’s Day. Unhampered by editorial insistence on what a “love poem” need be, these pieces are as funky and individual as our loves… read more: Boston Review (scroll down)
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