Delivering an Inheritance–or You Are Who I Love | Melissa McKinstry
Written over the span of a decade, Green of All Heads is a work of formal range and emotional urgency. In the coinciding wakes of tragic loss and new motherhood, Aracelis Girmay examines the entangled temporalities of an aging parent and newly born children.
Poet Melissa McKinstry reviews Green of All Heads, published by BOA Editions.
Examinations of Ongoingness | Jefferson Navicky
"The observant sixth collection from Larkin (Blue Hanuman) offers an extensive miscellany while continuing the poet's career-long interest in the body. ... Amid losses, restitutions, sudden joys, and unknowns, this volume sustains an appealing verve." —Publishers Weekly
Poet Jefferson Navicky reviews Old Stranger, published by Alice James Books and looks at some of the transcendant moments in life, and in the poetry of Joan Larkin.
The Empire of Being Alive | Bruce Spang
“Lyrical and unafraid, The New Economy invites us to name our fears and sorrows, to write to who or what has left us, to create practices that can hold both the darkness and light of this (in)finite life.”
Poet Bruce Spang reviews Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s latest book, The New Economy published by Copper Canyon Press, 2025. Spang challenges his own feelings about gender fluidity and examines (and releases) preconceived ideas about writing and identity, and steps into the “empire of being”.