Thriving Virtually: Literary Ahoys in the Night
I recently “shared” a new poem on Facebook, where one of the “apps” is that you can write a so-called …
Category Archives: Literary Criticism
Dispossession and Transcendence: A Reading of Sky Thick with Fireflies, Ethna McKiernan
Sky Thick with Fireflies Ethna McKiernan Salmon Press 2011, Ireland Many years ago, when I was in an informal writing …
Read It and Weep—He Liked My Work, But I Balked at the First Jump in the Editorial Olympiad
“Thanks for contacting me, redacted. There are in fact, numerous celebratory poems in the revised collection–in each section– that move …
Art’s Real Price: Merely, Martyrdom…
Naturally writing only rises to the level of art if it radiates the craft and language we associate with literature. …
“You Write Like An Angel”…. Notes From A Dark Horse
I admit it. I am sitting on my best manuscript, holding back from sending it out into the void. It …
Adrienne Rich: Visionary and Matriarch
Early on, Adrienne Rich’s work indicated a burgeoning voice and powerful sense of craft: Back in the typed line was …
For This Writer, Place Is Everything…
When I was a little girl I had a favorite book with color illustrations in it– on one page was …
Book Review: An Illumination of Book of Fire by Cary Waterman
Winter Quarantine It has always snowed, white falling like words all day and night speaking stones. And stars. Of beginning …
Book Review, Poetry: Patina, Tess Kincaid
With the beauteous late autumn comes a gorgeous new chapbook from Finishing Line Press: Patina, by Tess Kincaid. Let me …
A Review of 2011 Swenson Award Winner Travis Mossotti’s About the Dead
We never know how and when a superb literary voice is born, much less what makes it happen. But happen …
Loquaciously Yours 