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Warbler by Jane Schapiro

Source: GBF Paperback, 57 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Warbler by Jane Schapiro is a poetic song of loss, a call to grief and acceptance and to memory. When we lose someone grief can take hold of us and keep us still, but the memories are what move us past the sorrow and into […]

Mailbox Monday #632

Mailbox Monday has become a tradition in the blogging world, and many of us thank Marcia of The Printed Page for creating it. It now has it’s own blog where book bloggers can link up their own mailbox posts and share which books they bought or which they received for review from publishers, authors, and […]

Interview with Poet Teri Ellen Cross Davis, Author of a more perfect Union

I am excited to share with you my interview with local poet Teri Ellen Cross Davis, author of the poetry collection a more perfect Union and Poetry Coordinator for the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. About the collection: In the tender, sensual, and bracing poems of a more perfect Union, Teri Ellen Cross Davis reclaims the […]

Made to Explode by Sandra Beasley

Source: Purchased Hardcover, 88 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Made to Explode by Sandra Beasley begins its exploration of American life with the poem, “Heirloom,” which conjures all kinds of sentiments in American thinking. It sets the stage for Beasley’s unraveling of culture taken for granted — the past passed down from one generation […]

Woman Drinking Absinthe by Katherine E. Young

Source: Purchased Paperback, 72 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Woman Drinking Absinthe by Katherine E. Young is a visceral collection that explores female sexuality through fantastical elements and realistic situations from a woman chained to a bear to a woman dealing with the phantom limb of heartbreak. Young has crafted an emotional roller coaster […]

The Break-Up Book Club by Wendy Wax

Source: Publisher Paperback, 384 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate The Break-Up Book Club by Wendy Wax explores the unexpected friendships of a local book club in Atlanta at Between the Covers bookstore. This is an unusual book club where the members have a wide-range of backgrounds and experiences. Former tennis star Jazmine, empty-nester Judith, […]

Mailbox Monday #631

Mailbox Monday has become a tradition in the blogging world, and many of us thank Marcia of The Printed Page for creating it. It now has it’s own blog where book bloggers can link up their own mailbox posts and share which books they bought or which they received for review from publishers, authors, and […]

Now We’re Getting Somewhere by Kim Addonizio

Source: GBF Paperback, 96 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Now We’re Getting Somewhere by Kim Addonizio is a collection that you can hold close in your shelter-in-place during the pandemic and know that anything that happens behind closed doors is just kalsarikdnnit, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t shut the world out and ignore […]

How To Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi (audio)

Source: Purchased Audible, 10+ hrs. I am an Amazon Affiliate How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi, read by the author, is a phenomenal listen. I want to read the book as well in print. Kendi has the perfect voice for this book, and it makes the personal stories far more relateable. Much […]

Little Wars by W. Luther Jett

Source: Purchased Paperback, 32 pgs. I am an Amazon Affiliate Little Wars by W. Luther Jett (full disclosure: we are in a poetry work-shopping group together) begins with “Recessional” a poem-like hymn in which a poet realizes that he works on a poem in night as many men before him have done and that they […]