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'''Hope,' said Dickinson, 'is the thing with feathers.' Patty Crane's sequence seeks to embody th...

Susan Gordon's extraordinary language conveys us through death to dissolution and transfiguration...

'This is a poet of importance, a poet who knows this western American landscape and renders its h...

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'Mark MacAllister's Quiet Men and Their Coyotes is a poetry adventure of amazing depth and intima...

Winner of the 2022 Concrete Wolf Louis Award''Sometimes you have to tell a story your entire life...

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'Laura Shore's The Generosity of Birds illuminates the fullness of life from celebration to elegy...

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These verses fulfill what poetry is meant to express: emotion beyond definition, like the ache of...

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'Like 'two bodies lean into each other, ' the poems of Rough Grace-some drawn from life, some res...