THE LURE OF IMPERMANENCE, Carey Taylor, Cirque Press, 3978 Defiance Street, Anchorage, AK 99504, 2018, 73 pages, $15 paper, https://cirquejournal.com/ This morning I reread Carey Taylor’s debut collection, The Lure of Impermanence. Taylor covers a whole lifetime in this book, winding through childhood and adolescence, then marriage and children (with all those attendant fears), then the task of re-inventing a marriage […]
AN UNDERCURRENT OF JITTERS, Carol Levin. Moon Path Press, P.O. Box 445, Tillamook, OR 97141, 2018, 96 pages, $15 paper, http://moonpathpress.com/. I’ve crossed paths with Carol Levin many times over the years, often at It’s About Time, a reading series that meets on the second Thursday of each month in Ballard, Washington. Levin is also an editor with Crab […]
HAWK ON A POWER LINE, poems by Robert M. Wallace, Louisiana Literature Press, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana 70402, 2015, 56 pages, $14.95, paper, http://www.louisianaliterature.org/ Robert M. Wallace’s book of poems, Hawk on a Power Line, was given to me for Christmas. This morning I reread it, cover-to-cover. Wallace lives in West Virginia, a state of special […]
Because it is National Poetry Month and I have a goal of writing a poem a day, I’m also reading a lot of poetry. This morning I read Stars and Strangers, poems by Sue Sutherland-Hanson. (Finishing Line Press, Georgetown, Kentucky, 2016, 27 pages, $14.99 paper, www.finishinglinepress.com). Sutherland-Hanson was a northwest native and taught at Edmonds Community College. […]