Barbara Hamby’s On the Street of Divine Love is magnificent. Containing fifteen new poems and a distillation of her previous … More
Tag: University of Pittsburgh Press
Kimonos in the Closet, by David Shumate
Organized in thematic clusters, the poems in David Shumate’s Kimonos in the Closet are poems of exchange—cultural, historical, mythological, and … More
Chapel of Inadvertent Joy, by Jeffrey McDaniel
Jeffry McDaniel’s fifth book, Chapel of Inadvertent Joy, is an aptly titled collection of poems worth returning to again and … More
The Old Priest, by Anthony Wallace
“The state of New Jersey seems to be not much more than a gigantic strip mall.” This reflection comes near … More
Appetite, by Aaron Smith
“You’ve waited / your whole life for them to miss you,” Aaron Smith writes in “After All These Years You … More
Instructions for My Mother’s Funeral, by Laura Read
What if the only compass you had to the past was a series of fragmented images of home? What shape … More
Blowout, by Denise Duhamel
In Blowout, Denise Duhamel jaywalks across the intersections of the personal and historical, narrowly escaping a Mack truck and arriving … More
What Things Are Made Of: An Interview with Charles Harper Webb
Here I get the chance to talk to Charles Harper Webb about his latest book, What Things Are Made Of (University … More
