Review of Judith Skillman's The White Cypress

My review of Judith Skillman's new collection has been published in The Iowa Review's blog -- very happy to be featured there, and I've become quite a fan of Skillman's work over her last few collections, so it was a pleasure to be able to delve into the particularly rich material she covers in this one.

And that's about all the news for today.  Late autumn still has me feeling a little drowsy and a little taciturn.  I think some humans still have a gene for some vestigial form of the hibernation instinct.  If I were a scientist instead of a poet, I would check into that hypothesis.  But the very fact that I would posit it is probably sufficient proof that I am not a scientist.

Book Review in Lines+Stars

Now that it's September, and feeling like September, with the remnants of a hurricane cooling us with a week's worth of rain, a little news:  my review of Holly Karapetkova's debut collection, Words We Might One Day Say, appears in the new issue of the D.C.-based journal Lines+Stars.  Read it if you get a chance.  I seriously enjoyed and recommend the book in question.  The rest of the issue is worth checking out, too, with the theme of "Distractions & Amusements."  Now that it's September, of course, I'm wishing I had taken more vacations this summer.  But even though we mostly "staycated" this year, we did manage to get in some distraction and amusement.  Now it's back to business.  Mostly.

Book Review in Lines + Stars

I'm excited to see my first book review published outside of Melusine appearing in the new issue of Lines + Stars.  I got the chance to review Jehanne Dubrow's From the Fever-World.  Check it out here, if you like.