‘Felicity’ by Mary Oliver
Over her past few collections,
‘The Conversation’ by Judith Barrington and ‘Love Will Burst Into a Thousand Shapes’ by Jane Eaton Hamilton
Together, The Conversation and Love Will Burst into a Thousand Shapes demonstrate some of the vibrancy of contemporary lesbian poetry.
‘I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast’ by Melissa Studdard
In short, lush lines on expansive subjects, Melissa Studdard deftly guides her debut poetry collection, I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast, through cycles of time, space and emotion.
“beliefs.” by Candice Iloh
This week, a poem by Candice Iloh.
‘Erebus’ by Jane Summer and ‘Fanny Says’ by Nickole Brown
Two recent collections express documentary impulses in contemporary poetry
‘Stranger’s Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994-2014’ by Marilyn Hacker
A Stranger’s Mirror demonstrates Hacker’s continued formal mastery; she effortlessly spins one sonnet into two, then three, then seven, leaving readers always breathless for more.
“Too bright/ is the heaven I’m after”: A Review of Celeste Gainey’s ‘The Gaffer’
Celeste Gainey’s debut collection, The Gaffer, is a triumph of nouns—of people, places, things, and ideas presented to us in the most trenchant and timely ways.
‘Tiger Heron’ by Robin Becker
“Observant songs of history and elegy, these poems turn our faces to what we can do with love and language, and what we can’t.”
‘Viral’ by Suzanne Parker
How do you sleep when
Cheryl Clarke’s ‘Living as a Lesbian’: The Wherewithal to Tell It as It Is
“Clarke is a provocative poet who never asks permission to make her voice heard.”
