Book Reviews on Published Titles
Gae Alexander ~ My Side of the River
Terry Allen ~ Rubber Time
Also by Allen ~ Waiting on the Last Train
Brian Allgar ~ The Ayterzedd
Also by Allgar ~ An Answer from the Past
Bob Ambrose ~ Between Birdsong and Boulder: Poems on the Life of Gaia
C.B. Anderson ~ Roots in the Sky, Boots on the Ground: Metaphysical Poems
Nadia Arioli ~ Be Still: Poems for Kay Sage
Catherine Arra ~ Solitude, Tarot & the Corona Blues
Nancy Austin ~ The Turn of the Tiller, The Spill of the Wind
Lana Hechtman Ayers ~ Overtures
Jon Ballard ~ Possible Lives
Alan Balter ~ Melancholia
Mark Belair ~ Running Late
Also by Belair ~ Taking Our Time
Gershon Ben-Avraham ~ God’s Memory
Paul Bernstein ~ What the Owls Know
- Midwest Book Review
- Third Wednesday Magazine (Reading)
Bhupender K. Bhardwaj ~ Ebullience & Other Poems
John W. Bing ~ Time Signatures
Jane Blanchard ~ Metes and Bounds
Also by Blanchard ~ Sooner or Later
Laura Bobrow ~ End Game
Mary Ellen Boehm ~ Do Oceans Have Underwater Borders?
Rose Mary Boehm ~ Life Stuff
Ann Bookman ~ Blood Lines
Matthew Brennan ~ The End of the Road
Paul Buchheit ~ Alice's Adventures ~ A Modern Version of Lewis Carroll's Classic, in Verse
Also by Buchheit ~ Sonnets of Love and Joy
- Feathered Quill
- Indie Reader
- Literary Titan
- Readers’ Favorite
- Reader Views
- Reedsy
- Self-Publishing Review
- The US Review
- Windy City Reviews
Randal A. Burd, Jr. ~ Memoirs of a Witness Tree
- Bookworm Reviews
- Chris Rice Cooper Blog
- The HyperTexts
- Jama’s Alphabet Soup
- The Poetry Cafe
- The Society of Classical Poets
Katerina Canyon ~ Surviving Home
Joseph Kuhn Carey ~ Black Forest Dreams: A Journey Through Germany
Ute Carson ~ In the Blink of an Eye
Michael Caylo-Baradi ~ Hotel Pacoima
Catherine Chandler ~ Pointing Home
Patrice Boyer Claeys ~ Lovely Daughter of The Shattering
Also by Claeys ~ The Machinery of Grace
Florence Adams Clark & Carolyn Clark ~ Poet Duet: A Mother & Daughter
DeWitt Clinton ~ At the End of the War
Terese Coe ~ Shot Silk
Also by Coe ~ Why You Can’t Go Home Again
Elizabeth Cohen ~ Wonder Electric
Douglas Cole ~ The Blue Island
Willy Conley ~ The World of White Water
Robert Cooperman ~ A Nighmare on Horseback
Also by Cooperman ~ Hell at Cock’s Crow
Also by Cooperman ~ Reefer Madness
Also by Cooperman ~ Steerage
Dale Cottingham ~ Midwest Hymns
Ken Craft ~ Reincarnation & Other Stimulants: Life, Death, & In-Between Poems
Shutta Crum ~ Meet Me Out There
Also by Crum ~ The Way to the River
Also by Crum ~ When You Get Here
Rachel Dacus ~ Gods of Water and Air
Diane Elayne Dees ~ Coronary Truth
Thomas DeFreitas ~ Swift River Ballad
Also by DeFreitas ~ Winter in Halifax
Albert DeGenova ~ Human Nature: Poems of Witness
Deborah DeNicola ~ The Impossible
Arlene Distler ~ This Earth, This Body
Lynn Domina ~ Inland Sea
- Speaking of Marvels (interview)
- Deborah Kalb Books (Interview)
- DMQ Salon (Reading)
- FUMFA Poets & Writers Live (Reading)
- Midwest Book Review
- Northern Today, Northern Michigan University
- Rob McClennan Blog (Interview)
Erika Dreifus ~ Birthright
Joanne Durham ~ On Shifting Shoals
- Poets on Poetry (Interview and Reading, 2024)
- Autumn Sky Poetry (Featured Poem, 2023)
- Highland Park Poetry (Review, 2023)
- Her View Friday, Yellow Arrow Journal (Interview, 2023)
- Inflectionist Review (Reading, 2024)
- Line Break Podcast (Reading, 2023)
- One Minnesota Crone (Interview, 2023)
- Origin Stories, Gyroscope (Recorded Reading, 2023)
- Parkland Poets (Recorded Reading, 2023)
- Storyteller of the Week (Review, 2023)
Sarah Eddy ~ Ordinary Fissures
Wendy Ford ~ A Frontier Romance “Tiger Bill and Kate”
B. A. France ~ Season’s End
- Fireflies’ Light
- Journal of the Haiku Society of America
Marc Frazier ~ If It Comes to That
Jennifer Freed ~ When Light Shifts
Randall R. Freisinger ~ Windthrow & Salvage
Amy Strauss Friedman ~ The Eggshell Skull Rule
Peggy Gerber ~ The Big Indignity
Alice Wolf Gibbon ~ Apples & Stones
D. Walsh Gilbert ~ [M]AR[Y]
Mel Glenn ~ At Bat
Ethan Goffman ~ Words for Things Left Unsaid
- EarthTalk / E: The Environmental Magazine
- Mad Swirl Review
- The Song Is
- Quintessential Listening: Poetry Online Radio
Paula Goldman ~ Late Love
Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas ~ On the Edge of the Ethereal
Also by Stevenson Grellas ~ Alice in Ruby Slippers
Lisa Grunberger ~ For the Future of Girls
Holly Guran ~ Now Before and Ever
Rasma Haidri ~ As If Anything Can Happen
Batnadiv HaKarmi ~ The Love of Mortal Beings
Dane Hamann ~ A Thistle Stuck in the Throat of the Sun
Penny Harter ~ Keeping Time: Haibun for the Journey
- The WildStory Podcast (Interview)
- Contemporary Haibun Online
- Haiku Canada Review
- Rattlecast (Interview)
Also by Harter ~ Still-Water Days
William Heath ~ Going Places
- ArLiJo (Review)
- Grace Cavalieri (Reading)
Diana Henning ~ Camaraderie of the Marvelous
Mary Beth Hines ~ Winter at a Summer House
- The Book Connection
- The Cape Cod Times
- Kirkus
- Literary Mama Interview
- Literary Mama Review
- Necromancy Never Pays
- Savvy Verse & Wit
- True Book Addict
- Wall-to-Wall Books
Angela Hoffman ~ Olly Olly Oxen Free
Karen Paul Holmes ~ Untying the Knot
Tom Holmes ~ Material Matters
Charlotte Innes ~ Descanso Drive
Also by Innes ~ Twenty Pandemicals
Catherine Jagoe ~ Praying to the God of Small Things
Michael Jennings ~ Summoning the Outlaws
Marianne Smith Johnson ~ Tender Collisions
Jacqueline Jules ~ Manna in the Morning
Julia Kane ~ Paper Bullets
Liana Kapelke-Dale ~ Seeking the Pink
Mary Louise Kiernan ~ The Gift of Glossophobia
Carolynn Kingyens ~ Before the Big Bang Makes a Sound
Also by Kingyens ~ Coupling
Daniel Klawitter ~ Quiet Insurrections
Yasmin Kloth ~ Ancestry Unfinished
Tricia Knoll ~ Checkered Mates
Sharon Waller Knutson ~ What the Clairvoyant Doesn’t Say
David P. Kozinski ~ I Hear It the Way I Want It to Be
Laurie Kuntz ~ Talking Me Off the Roof
Yahia Lababidi ~ Learning to Pray: A Book of Longing
Lori Levy ~ What Do You Mean When You Say Green? and Other Poems of Color
Sandra J. Lindow ~ Chasing Wild Grief
Lorraine Henrie Lins ~ Without the Water
Jennifer Schomburg Kanke ~ The Swellest Wife Anyone Ever Had
Jonathan Koven ~ Mystic Orchards
Barbara Loots ~ The Beekeeper and Other Love Poems
Amy Losak ~ Wing Strokes Haiku
Gregory Luce ~ Riffs & Improvisations
Majorie Maddox ~ Inside Out: Poems on Writing and Reading Poems
- Booklist
- Bright Ideas’ Consultancy
- But Does It Rhyme
- David Harrison’s Connecting the Dots
- Dawn Leas: Pick-Me-Up-Poetry
- Glynn Young: Tweetspeak Poetry
- Highland Park Poetry Review
- Irene Latham: Live Your Poem
- Jade Browne (Interview)
- Jama’s Alphabet Soup
- Linda Baie: Teacher Dance
- Liz Steinglass: Poetry for Children and Their Grownups
- Matt Forrest: Poetry Friday
- Mom Egg Review
- Mom Egg Review: Author’s Note
- New Book News
- Paul W. Hankins
- Pencil Tips and Writing Workshop Strategies
- Poetry for Children
- PSLA Teaching and Learning: Literature Review
- Redheaded Stepchild
- Robert Lowes
- Scintilla.info
- Skagit River Poetry
- Tinderbox Poetry Journal
- Unleashing Readers
- WPSU Radio: BookMark
- Whale Road Review
Also by Maddox ~ How Can I Look It Up When I Don't Know How It's Spelled?: Spelling Mnemonics and Grammar Tricks
Dave Malone ~ Tornado Drill
Mary Makofske ~ No Angels
Charlotte Mandel ~ Alive & In Use: Poems in the Japanese Form of Haibun
Rita Maria Martinez ~ The Jane and Bertha in Me
- The Best Brontë Books of 2018
- Bonnets at Dawn (Podcast)
- Lay Back and Think of England (Podcast)
Marc Alan Di Martino ~ Unburial
Mary McCarthy ~ How to Become Invisible
S.B. Merrow ~ Everyone A Bell
Carole Mertz ~ Color and Line
Nancy Anne Miller ~ Latitude, Longitude
Also by Miller ~ Pink Typewriter
Robert Miss ~ Prospero’s Glove
Diane Lee Moomey ~ Sourdough
Miles David Moore ~ Man on Terrace with Wine
Edward Morin ~ The Bold News of Birdcalls
- Eclectica
- Fence Digital
- Highland Park Poetry
- MidAmerica: The Yearbook of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature 2021 Volume 48, pp. 57-67
- North of Oxford
- PULP
- Rain Taxi 2021 Volume 48, pp. 57 - 67
- RHINO
Wilda Morris ~ At Goat Hollow and Other Poems
Also by Morris ~ Pequod Poems: Gamming with Moby-Dick
Jane Yevgenia Muschenetz ~ All the Bad Girls Wear Russian Accents
- San Diego Writers Festival (Interview, 2024)
- San Diego Public Library 2024 Local Author's Showcase (Feature, 2024)
- The Meat for Teacast (Interview, 2024)
- East County Magazine (Review, 2024)
- KPBS Arts Preview Article
- KPBS Midday Edition On Air Interview
- Line Break Shortwave, Episode 51 (Reading, 2023)
- The Poetry Salon (Interview, 2023)
- The San Diego Union-Tribune 7th Annual Festival of Books (Reading, 2023)
- Sheila Na Gig Reading Series (Reading, 2023)
- The Written Scene, Episode 15 (Interview, 2022)
John David Muth ~ Dreams of a Viking Wedding
Sally Nacker ~ Kindness in Winter
Also by Nacker ~ Night Snow
Dr. Anita Nahal ~ Kisses at the espresso bar
Also by Nahal ~ What’s wrong with us Kali women?
- Boloji
- BookBuzz
- Confluence (August 2021 Issue)
- East India Story
- FemAsia Magazine
- Journal of Expressive Writing
- Madhumita Sinha
- Megha’s World
- Samyukta Journal
- Setu Mag
- The Statesman
- The Pioneer
Karen Neuberg ~ Pursuit
Cristina M. R. Norcross ~ Beauty in the Broken Places
Also by Norcross ~ The Sound of a Collective Cross
Also by Norcross ~ The Poetry Apothecary
Larry O’Brien ~ The White Hydrangeas
Chris O’Carroll ~ Abracadabratude
Also by O’Carroll ~ The Joke’s on Me
Mary K. O’Melveny ~ Flight Patterns
Angela Patten ~ The Oriole & the Ovenbird
Lynn Pattison ~ Matryoshka Houses
Andrea Potos ~ Marrow of Summer
Also by Potos ~ Mothershell
- Escape into Life
- Jama’s Alphabet Soup (Long Review)
- Jama’s Alphabet Soup (Short Review)
- Mom Egg Review
Christine Potter ~ Unforgetting
Charles Rammelkamp ~ The Field of Happiness
Also by Rammelkamp ~ See What I Mean?
Also by Rammelkamp ~ Uger Lee
Patrick T. Reardon ~ Darkness on the Face of the Deep
Nancy Richardson ~ Going Home
Linda Neal Reising ~ Vivia: The Legend of Vivia Thomas: A Novelette in Poems
Janet McMillan Rives ~ Washed by a Summer Rain: Poems from the Desert
Lee Orlich Bertram ~ Insistence, Persistence, and Resistance: Collected Poems
Nicole Rollender ~ The Luster of Everything I’m Already Forgetting
Sydell Rosenberg & Amy Losak ~ Wing Strokes Haiku
Menachem Rosenaft ~ Poems Born in Bergen-Belsen
- Booklist
- eJewish Philanthropy
- Jewish Book Council
- Jewish Journal
- National Catholic Register
- Reuters
- World Jewish Congress President’s Report
Sarah Russell ~ Today and Other Seasons
Diane Sahms-Guarnieri ~ The Handheld Mirror of the Mind
S. Salazar ~ Raíces, Relics, and Other Ghosts
Kelly Samuels ~ All the Time in the World
Rikki Santer ~ Head to Toe of It
Federica Santini ~ Unearthed
Sarah Sarai ~ That Strapless Bra in Heaven
Kelly Sargent ~ Seeing Voices: Poetry in Motion
- Highland Park Poetry Review (Posted February 1, 2023)
- The Poetry Cafe
- Readers' Favorite
- Sundress Publications
- Wordgathering
Also by Sargent ~ Echoes in My Eyes
Peggy Schimmelman ~ Make Me Your Love Song
Nancy Scott ~ A Little Excitement
Also by Scott ~ Midwestern Memories
Ndaba Sibanda ~ We Are Not an Error But the Idioms of Our Era
Carol Smallwood ~ The Illusiveness of Grey
Sarah Dickenson Snyder ~ The Human Contract
J.R. Solonche ~ Around Here
Also by J.R. Solonche ~ The Dreams of the Gods
Also by J.R. Solonche ~ If You Should See Me Walking On the Road
Kris Spencer ~ Life Drawing
Rae Spencer ~ Watershed
Also by Spencer ~ Alchemy
Elizabeth Spragins ~ The Language of Bones
Lisa St. John ~ Swallowing Stones
Margaret Stawowy ~ Walking Backward
- Naugatuck River Review (Finalist)
- Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition (2nd Place)
Donna Baier Stein ~ Letting Rain Have Its Say
Sarah Stern ~ We Have Been Lucky in the Midst of Misfortune
Lisa Stice ~ Uniform
- Humane
- The Independent: Summer Reading List
- Military Spouse Book Review – Kathleen M. Rogers
- Military Spouse Book Review – Wartime Poetry
- Mom Egg Review
- Red Bull Rising
- Shmotown
Judy Swann ~ Fool
Marilyn L. Taylor ~ Outside the Frame
Alarie Tenille ~ Three A.M. at the Museum
Jessica D. Thompson ~ Daybreak and Deep
Laura Rodley ~ Ribbons and Moths: Poems for Children
Rodney Torreson ~ The Ascension of Sandy’s Drive-In
Pasquale Trozzolo ~ UN/Reconciled
Gene Twaronite ~ Shopping Cart Dreams
Also by Twaronite ~ Death at the Mall
Victoria Twomey ~ Glimpse
Reagan Upshaw ~ In the Panhandle: Poems 1975–2020
Ann E. Wallace ~ Days of Grace and Silence: a Chronicle of COVID's Long Haul
- The WildStory Podcast (Interview)
- World Literature Today (Review)
- Thimble (Interview)
- Compulsive Reader (Review)
- Jersey City Times (Review)
- NJ.com (Review)
- Mom Egg Review (Review)
Julie Weiss ~ The Places We Empty
Walter Weinschenk ~ The Death of Weinberg: Poems and Stories
- The Gateway Review
- New Pages
Charles Weld ~ Seringo
Meg Weston ~ Magma Intrusions
Patricia Williams ~ Midwest Medley: Places & People, Wild Things & Weather
Also by Williams ~ Rejection to Acceptance: 57 Poems That Finally Made It
Paul J. Willis ~ Losing Streak
Lee Woodman ~ Lifescapes
- Broadkill Review
- The Dressing
- Kirkus
- Kirkus Review: An Interview with Lee Woodman (2022)
- Kirkus Review: Fully Booked Podcast (2022)
- Manhattan Book Review
- Portland Book Review
- San Francisco Book Review
- Seattle Book Review
Anton Yakovlev ~ Ordinary Impalers
Joseph Zaccardi ~ The Weight of Bodily Touches
Andrena Zawinski ~ Landings
Yvonne Zipter ~ The Wordless Lullaby of Crickets