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). […]
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, […]
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 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 […]