review

Review of Candice M. Kelsey’s "Choose Your Own Poem" by Tiffany Storrs

Generally speaking, two things are true: the first is that, more often than not, reading poetry is only an incidentally tailored...

Review of LindaAnn LoSchiavo's "Apprenticed to the Night" by Kellie Scott-Reed

Procrastination can sometimes pay off. I had on my list of things to do, to read the book of poetry “Apprenticed to the Night” by...

Review of Elizabeth M. Castillo's "Not Quite An Ocean" by Kellie Scott-Reed

I sat, criss-cross applesauce on my back deck in the direct sunlight, waiting for that hint of inspiration to come down from the heavens...

A Review of Meg Tuite's "Three By Tuite" by Tiffany M Storrs

Three by Tuite is a battle cry, among many other things. As the title suggests, Meg Tuite has broken this brilliant bone in three places:...

"Review: 'The tragedy of touch' by Shiksha Dheda" by Matt Kruze

The tragedy of touch is a multi-sensory dive into the self, a collection of poems presented across a range of formats that invites the...

Review of Patrick Nevins' "Man in a Cage" by François Bereaud

I read Patrick Nevins’ Man in a Cage in one sitting on an airplane. My real movement through time and space in an engineering marvel was...

Review of Oisín Breen's "Lilies on the Deathbed of Étaín and Other Poems" by Tiffany M Storrs

The classic Irish mythology surrounding Étaín is one rooted in a feeling of excruciating envy; the bitterness of an old love set to...

"Review of J. Archer Avary’s 'Total Rhubarb' " by Kellie Scott-Reed (available 1/9/2023)

There are certain writers, who you feel ‘get you’. Almost like they took something on the tip of your tongue and finished your thought...

Nolcha Fox’s "Review of 'Selected Poems: The Director’s Cut' " by John Yamrus

I met John Yamrus through an online forum. I was a newbie in the poetry world, published for about a year. John invited forum members to...

“Review of ‘The Maggot on Maple Street’ by Courtenay Schembri Gray” by Kellie Scott-Reed

You say you want a revolution? What if that revolution meant turning yourself inside out instead of turning you around. What if it meant...

Review of john compton’s ‘the castration of a minor god’ by Kellie Scott-Reed

Truth. Your truth; mine. We have our versions, but for it to actually be the truth, we must first be honest with ourselves. In john...