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Frank Paino, PIETÁ

May 4, 2024/0 Comments/in Reading /by Bethany

PIETÁ, Frank Paino. Jacar Press, 6617 Deerview Trail, Durham, NC 27712, 2023, 46 pages, $14.00 paper, www.jacarpress.com.

Winner of the Jacar Press Chapbook Prize, 2023, chosen by Saddiq Dzukogi, author of Your Crib, My Qibla

This is the review that catches me up for the year (18 weeks, 18 poetry books read and written about). See the review here:

https://www.escapeintolife.com/poetry/pieta-a-poetry-chapbook-review/.

Catherine Carter’s GOOD MORNING, UNSEEN

April 26, 2024/1 Comment/in Poetry /by Bethany

GOOD MORNING, UNSEEN, Catherine Carter. Jacar Press, 6617 Deerview Trail, Durham, NC 27712, 2023, 28 pages, $14.00 paper, www.jacarpress.com.

This week, you can read my weekly review at EIL (the online journal Escape Into Life): https://www.escapeintolife.com/poetry/good-morning-unseen-a-poetry-chapbook-review/.

I hope your National Poetry Month has been amazing! (Mine has.)

Bethany

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Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, HUSHJune 27, 2024 - 6:37 pm
HUSH, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. Middle Creek Publishing & Audio, 9167 Pueblo Mountain Park Road, Beulah, CO 81023, 2020, 110 pages, $20, middlecreekpublishing.com. I am off to Bellingham, Washington, today for the Chuckanut Writers’ Conference, so I’m going to make this quick. If your library does not already carry this book, urge them to acquire it! […]
Tina Barr, PINK MOONJune 21, 2024 - 10:56 pm
You can find this week’s poetry book review at Escape Into Life — just follow this link: https://www.escapeintolife.com/book-reviews/pinkmoon100888/ Yes, I know I’m behind, but I’ll be back next week with more.
Adam Zagajewski, TRUE LIFEJune 9, 2024 - 2:04 am
TRUE LIFE, Adam Zagajewski, trans. Clare Cavanaugh. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 120 Broadway, New York 10271, 2019, 80 pages, $16 paper, www.fsgbooks.com. I have been a fan of Adam Zagajewski’s poetry ever since his “Try to Praise the Mutilated World” appeared in the New Yorker the week after 9/11. I bought his selected poems, Without End […]
Sandra Noel, WHAT THE PAIN LEFTJune 1, 2024 - 9:54 pm
WHAT THE PAIN LEFT, Sandra Noel. Kelsay Books, 502 South 1040 East, A-119, American Fork, Utah 84003, 2024, 56 pages, $20 paper, Kelsaybooks.com. Although it is always a pleasure to read poems by Vashon Island poet Sandra Noel, this book felt very different from the two I have previously reviewed, Hawk Land (2022) and The Gypsy […]
Good Poetry for Hard TimesMay 14, 2024 - 2:24 am
I have mentioned my upcoming class, Good Poetry for Hard Times, to you before, and posted the announcement on my Home page with other events, but this evening I’m taking a moment to promote it again. In short: My Creative Retirement Institute (CRI) class begins May 24 and continues for a total of four Fridays, […]
Julene Tripp Weaver: SLOW NOW WITH CLEAR SKIESMay 10, 2024 - 4:42 pm
SLOW NOW WITH CLEAR SKIES, Julene Tripp Weaver. MoonPath Press, P.O. Box 445, Tillamook, OR 27142, 2013, 96 pages, $18.99, paper, http://MoonPathPress.com. MoonPath Press editor Lana Hechtman Ayers says that she thinks of MoonPath as a community, and a theme of community permeates Julene Tripp Weaver’s MoonPath book, Slow Now with Clear Skies. Provided we […]
Frank Paino, PIETÁMay 4, 2024 - 6:37 pm
PIETÁ, Frank Paino. Jacar Press, 6617 Deerview Trail, Durham, NC 27712, 2023, 46 pages, $14.00 paper, www.jacarpress.com. Winner of the Jacar Press Chapbook Prize, 2023, chosen by Saddiq Dzukogi, author of Your Crib, My Qibla This is the review that catches me up for the year (18 weeks, 18 poetry books read and written about). […]
Sally Albiso, LIGHT ENTERING MY BONESApril 30, 2024 - 10:36 pm
LIGHT ENTERING MY BONES, Sally Albiso. MoonPath Press, P.O. Box 445, Tillamook, OR 27142, 2020, 96 pages, $16.99, paper, http://MoonPathPress.com. Because it is the last day of National Poetry Month, I decided this morning (April 30) to reread Sally Albiso’s Light Entering My Bones and share it with you. I hardly know where to begin, […]
Catherine Carter’s GOOD MORNING, UNSEENApril 26, 2024 - 9:27 pm
GOOD MORNING, UNSEEN, Catherine Carter. Jacar Press, 6617 Deerview Trail, Durham, NC 27712, 2023, 28 pages, $14.00 paper, www.jacarpress.com. This week, you can read my weekly review at EIL (the online journal Escape Into Life): https://www.escapeintolife.com/poetry/good-morning-unseen-a-poetry-chapbook-review/. I hope your National Poetry Month has been amazing! (Mine has.) Bethany
Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of MindfulnessApril 15, 2024 - 10:36 pm
Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems, eds. Phyllis Cole-Dai, Ruby R. Wilson, Grayson Books, West Hartford, CT, 2017, 250 pages, $21.95, paper, www.GraysonBooks.com. I am hard at work (or joyfully at work) on my spring class with the Creative Retirement Institute (CRI), “Good Poetry for Hard Times,” and I am also working on several […]