A review of Sugar Fix now appears in Glass: A Journal of Poetry. Reviewer and fellow poet Anne Graue says of the book: turning the pages is easy and urgent She remarks on numerous individual poems and also the overall structure and flow of the book, writing: There is a cadence in the progression from beginning to end, from free verse and prose poems to sonnets and elegiac tercets that helps to distill moments and memory, sweetness and pain. From a comprehensive review like this one, to … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2019
Sugar Fix Shout-Out 3: Poet Tiana Clark
December 17, 2019 By 1 Comment
If you're in the poetry world, there's a good chance you've heard of Tiana Clark, prize-winning author of I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood and Equilibrium. Along with numerous poets from middle Tennessee and beyond, Tiana and I share the same "poetry father" - the wondrous Bill Brown, most recently author of The Cairns and a model of generosity and attention. In the past couple of years, Tiana's career has skyrocketed. Y'all, when she reads in Nashville, HUNDREDS of people show … [Read more...]
Lift Every Voice: New anthology from Kissing Dynamite sings
December 7, 2019 By Leave a Comment
I've recently posted a review of the new book Lift Every Voice: An Anthology of Poetry on Goodreads. Y'all, the short version is, you need to get a copy. Several of the poems have stuck with me for weeks since I've read them, and one has inspired quite a bit of new writing for me. Don't you love when that happens? Kissing Dynamite is a relatively new online monthly journal you might like to check out. I love the format and the work that editor Christine Taylor is selecting. (I've had my own … [Read more...]
