Category: Review
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Barb’s Wordy Blurbs: Heron Spirit by Ken Gierke
Ken Gierke’s new poetry collection, Heron Spirit, is a conversation with the natural world. The poems take us from playing in leaves to lines that paddle in unison with the waves of metaphors, the lines that stretch into the endless horizon of an endless river. Nature holds bold, tall titans, sentinel eagles,…
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Peter Mladinic’s Review of “The Lost Book of Zeroth” is up on the Journal Your Impossible Voice!
Thank you so much, Pete, for your generous and insightful review of The Lost Book of Zeroth (Alien Buddha Press, 2025). Here are Pete’s opening lines: The Lost Book of Zeroth is comic, tragic, and ultimately human. The irony is that the book’s first three sections are “peopled by robots:” Sophia,…
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Barb’s Wordy Blurbs: The Weight of One Hummingbird Feather and Random Seed by Sharon SingingMoon
Sharon SingingMoon’s new poetry collection, The Weight of One Hummingbird Feather, is a tragic memoir of the loss of her son to drug addiction in early January 2023. These raw and honest poems reveal not just her son’s descent into addiction but also his healthy years of promise. Imagine a…
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Barb’s Wordy Blurbs: Files of Information on People Who Don’t Exist by Peter Mladinic
In Peter Mladinic’s poetry collection Files of Information on People Who Don’t Exist (BlazeVOX, October 9, 2024), the minutia of daily forgetting become memoirs set in free verse. With the precision of a reporter, Mladinic uncovers our deepest impulses, surrenders, and sins. A keen observer, he writes with such honesty, we…
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Barb’s Wordy Blurbs: Glass Awash by Ken Gierke
What immediately impresses the reader is the cover, which displays stones hewn into glass by water and time. Different shades of blue and green, shaped into tears. On the back cover, one stone, a ruby, represents the heart embraced by shadows. When I open the book to…
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Barb’s Wordy Blurbs: Me a Guest Judge for Collaborature?!
I’m grateful to Melissa Lemay, founder of and editor for Collaborature, for inviting me to be the guest judge for the month of April. I read each entry several times and appreciated the opportunity to judge each and every one. I selected an ekphrastic poem “Unstrung” by Mary Stebbins Taitt…
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My Review of Walter Bargen’s New Poetry Book, Radiation Diary: Return To the Sea
This review is up today on MasticadoresUSA. Walter’s powerful poems in this collection address his battle with prostate cancer. His use of metaphors is masterful. I hope this review inspires you to read his book.
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Michelle Ayon Navajas’ Wonderful Review of “Three-Penny Memories: A Poetic Memoir”
I am delighted and honored to read Michelle’s review of my debut poetry collection published by EIF – Experiments in Fiction, 2022. I feel she captured the major themes of the Mother Wound, grief, and loss well. I hope you enjoy her review as much as I did. It was…
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My Spoken Review of “Locker” by Michelle Ayon Navajas
Michelle’s latest book “Locker” sold out at her recent book launch. Congratulations, Michelle! I had already posted my review of “Locker”, which you can access here. My Review of “Locker” by Michelle Ayon Navajas In addition, here is a video reading I created for Michelle. https://drive.google.com/file/d/12-R4O2WqdYROaPRK9ljtzCp2cz5CmSxh/view?usp=drivesdk I hope you enjoy…
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My Review of “Coming Home” by Smitha Vishwanath
I hope my review will inspire you to read the book. Why? I invite you to read on….
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