An homage to the life of poet, writer, and teaching artist Judith Tannenbaum and her impact on incarcerated and marginalized students. The Book of Judith honors Judith Tannenbaum but also reflects, through both form and content, on the complexities of seeing both the parts and the whole. The book presents different aspects of Judith-poet, ......
Inside this debut collection, girlhood's dangers echo, transmuted, in the poet's fears for her son. A body just discovering the vastness of "want's new acreage" is humbled by chronic illness. Epithalamion turns elegy. But this world that so often seems capricious in its cruelty also shelters apple orchards, glass museums, schoolchildren, ......
The 2022 issue explores North Carolina writers who teach (and teachers who write). The issue opens with Georgann Eubanks's essay on North Carolina playwright, civil rights activist, and UNC Chapel Hill Professor Paul Green, followed by letters from Peter Taylor from his Greensboro home where he taught at North Carolina Women's College (now UNC ......
'Susan Garman's debut collection is a delight. A genuine poetic sensibility Garman sees beyond the ordinary the seemingly mundane to find - to use William Blake's words - "eternity in a grain of sand". These poems constantly surprise the reader both in the way they illuminate the lives we live and Garman's startling turns of phrase that ......
The tanka form in which these short lyrics on nature were composed is that of traditional Japanese poetry. In classical Japanese the expression meaning 'leaves' kotonoha is a homonym for 'words'. Both are also written identically in Kanji characters which join 'say' with 'leaf/leaves'. Kotonoha can also refer to ......
The poems in Richard Stanton's new collection are inspired by landscape and imagination with frequent collisions between the two. Richard's first collection was Seven Car Loads of What You Need. He is also the author of Enngonia Road.
'Ouyang Yu's Foreign Matter rages against the vacuity of suburban life alert to every racist slight with a linguistic playfulness that shuffles and bounces through English language via the "gibberish keyings of an irrelevant computer". Here Australia is often depicted as an unabashed identity-less dystopia a volatile yet bland ......
Composed during Covid-19 these poems reveal the fragility of life and the strength of love in dark times. The poet finds solace in the little things of life: a cup of coffee with a friend a walk by the seashore with her family in the quiet loveliness of the natural environment in the dailiness of living even as death seems around the ......
This is a welcome retrospective of Ray Tyndale's poetry carefully chosen by Peggy Mares from a vast collection of favourite and new work. No surprise to anyone that it turns out to be mostly about women.
