Tag: poetry

  • New Reviews on Full Stop

    I have been a little delinquent in updating this site over the last few months as I worked on several projects. Some of those project were book reviews. First up, is Selah Saterstrom‘s powerful and eloquent short book, Rancher. Containing one long essay about sexual assault, both in the author’s history and in history more…

  • New Review – Madness by Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué in Rain Taxi

    A few years back, I reviewed the poetry collection Losing Miami by Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué for Terrain.org. The collection was later a finalist of the Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry, which didn’t surprise me at all, because the work was outstanding. It was so outstanding, in fact, that when I learned about Gabriel’s new collection…

  • New Review – Ctasy, of Shapes Off Shore by John Paetsch

    John Paetsch’s experimental poetry collection, Ctasy, of shapes off shore, (Hiding Press, 2020) reminded me a lot of the Museum of Jurassic Technology on Venice Blvd in Los Angeles. By blending antiquated scientific language and concepts with optical and personal imagery, the poet, like the quirky museum, challenges the ways we make meaning. The book…

  • Book Review – Losing Miami, poems by Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué

                        Of all the books I read and reviewed this year, Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué collection of poems, Losing Miami, was my favorite. Like many people, I primarily encounter climate change in numbers – numbers of degrees average temps have increase, number of species lost, number of fires,…

  • Book Review – Operating Systems by Joe Pan

    My review for Joe Pan’s poetry collection, Operating Systems (Spork Press, 2019) is up at Heavy Feather Review. I mostly focus on Pan’s long poem that ends the collection, “Ode to the MQ-9 Reaper,” which is awesome. Read the review from Heavy Feather – https://heavyfeatherreview.org/2019/07/09/pan/ You can purchase Operating Systems from Spork right here –…