Hungry Words/Book Review

HUNGRY WORDS By R. Bremner Alien Buddha Press Erie, PA 2018 $9.89 Paperback: 62 pages. 6”x9” ISBN # 9781724991140 Review by Richard Paul Bremner’s Hungry Words takes us on a trip through city streets, suburban sidewalks, and several minds in varying degrees of health...

Luxembourg/Book Review

LUXEMBOURG by Stephen Oliver Greywacke Press, Canberra 2018 112pp., $24.95   Reviewed by Nicholas Reid Though I’ve never met Stephen Oliver in person, I’ve been reviewing his poetry for nearly twenty years and ought, in the interests of transparency, to...

Poet Drew Pisarra, with Clarinda Harriss

INFINITY STANDING UP Capturing Fire Press, Washington, DC ISBN: 978-1-7328759-1-3, 58 pages, $10.00 Review by Clarinda Harriss It was a lucky day for me a review copy of Drew Pisarra’s stunning sonnet collection INFINITY STANDING UP arrived at my office. In two weeks...

Poena Damni/Poetry Review

Poena Damni Review/essay by Toti O’Brien   Dimitris Lyacos Poena Damni (2018) (Translated by Shorsha Sullivan) Shoestring Press http://www.shoestring-press.com/ ISBN: 978-1-912524-01-3 (3 book box set, $19.95)        1.      Who is the man in Z213?      The...
Thomas Merton’s Pulitzer Nod/John Smelcer & Paul Pearson

Thomas Merton’s Pulitzer Nod/John Smelcer & Paul Pearson

  Thomas Merton and the Curious Case of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize   by John Smelcer with Paul Pearson During his lifetime (1915-1968), Thomas Merton never knew that one of his poetry books had been a contender for the Pulitzer Prize. In fact, no one did....