Tag: Natalie Shapero

  • Two Poems by Natalie Shapero

    Two Poems by Natalie Shapero

    Half-staff Long enough I have lived in this city—when the flagsits at half-staff, strangers ask me why, and askin vain. I only know the major deaths. I’m best with warsof expansion. On losses beyond that, I have littleto add, except to make clear I trust and do not envythe low clerk charged with every up…

  • The Ides of March: An Anthology of Ohio Poets, edited by Hannah Stephenson, reviewed by Ezekiel Black

    The Ides of March: An Anthology of Ohio Poets, edited by Hannah Stephenson, reviewed by Ezekiel Black

    The editors of Heavy Feather Review chose me to review The Ides of March because of my inexperience with Ohio. They wanted an outside perspective, and this they shall receive. That is, my only exposure to Ohioan culture was a wedding I recently attended. Although the wedding was in Kentucky, the bride and her family…

  • No Object, poetry by Natalie Shapero, reviewed by Nathan Moore

    No Object, poetry by Natalie Shapero, reviewed by Nathan Moore

    “It is unbefitting to believe in ghosts, to believe what one reads,what one writes.”  —“Arranged Hours,” Natalie Shapero I have been in possession of Natalie Shapero’s No Object for a long time—about seven weeks. I should have turned in this review a while ago. The thing is, it caught me. Have you ever found a…