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Reader-submitted poem and review: “Poetic Political Satire” by Robert G....
100 Thousand Poets for Change is a poetry-centric international movement for social change that held simultaneous events in cities all over the world the last weekend in September. I can’t resist the...
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Interview: Baltimore poet and Publishing Genius editor Adam Robinson
Cover of ‘Adam Robison and Other Poems,’ by Adam Robinson. (Yes, his last name is misspelled in the title on purpose.) I’ve only been to one, but I can definitely say: an Adam Robinson reading is not...
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The natural world of York native Steve Ausherman’s ‘Creek Bed Blue,’ a...
Front cover of York native poet Steve Ausherman’s ‘Creek Bed Blue.’ “Pull me down into the stout mud of buried crayfish and broken clay pots” (p. 20), into the world recreated in the poetry of Steve...
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More from Melissa Carl: A review of Brutal Allure, her second book of poetry
Brutal Allure, poems by Melissa Carl (Bryce Cullen Publishing, 2011). We’ve seen and read what York poet and educator Melissa Carl can produce under the parameters of form (found poetry) and the...
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Review of Beth Weaver-Kreider’s ‘The Song of the Toad and the Mockingbird’
Sometimes it takes me a little while to write a review, and it has nothing to do with how much I did or didn’t enjoy the book. Sometimes, we read things that make us want to slow down a little, to...
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Review of ‘Our Rarer Monsters’ by York’s Noel Sloboda
“Our Rarer Monsters” is available at sunnyoutside.com and Amazon.com “Our Rarer Monsters” is one of those books I’ve picked up and flipped through many times, reading a poem here and there, before I...
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Shaping a life in verse: Review of Harrisburg poet Jack Veasey’s ‘Shapely:...
When Jack Veasey sent me a press kit and copy of his recently published selected poems late last fall, my first thought was, how do I review one of the most iconic veteran poets in this region? Then:...
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Poetry as gravity? Review of Hopewell Township poet Rich Hemmings’“Orbits...
“Orbits Around a Lightless Star,” by Hopewell Township author Rich Hemmings, was published in 2013 by the independent, York-based PoemSugar Press. What is good poetry? What is poetry, even? Does poetry...
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Review: “Suddenly, Love” by Aharon Appelfeld
Ernst is a 70-year-old Red Army veteran, living alone with his housekeeper, Irena. His wife and child were killed in the second world war. Ernst slaves over the novels he writes about his life,...
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Review: ‘The Singular Pilgrim’ by Rosemary Mahoney
I don’t read large books, because it takes me forever to even finish reading one book. But there was a particular reason I picked up this 400-page beast by Rosemary Mahoney: I have been struggling with...
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