Finishing Line Press, 2010 Reviewed by Georgia Ann Banks-Martin Cynthia Reeser is a poet, visual artist, musician, and the Founding Editor of Prick of the Spindle. Her new collection of poems, Light and Trials of Light is a chapbook published by Finishing Line Press earlier this year. The collection is comprised of twenty poems which [...]

Finishing Line Press, 2009 Review by Jamie Elizabeth Marko The question of identity is a constant struggle for most Americans. We boldly declare our heritage, if we are lucky enough to know it, assuming that our ancestral homes innately impart some deeper meaning to our sense of self. What does it mean to be Irish? [...]

Plainview Press, 2010 Reviewed by Georgia Ann Banks-Martin She Did What? Many books have been written and praised for their complex depictions of women. However, few writers are able to present readers with characters who seem as realistic and multifaceted as Christine Hamm does in her new book of poems, Saints and Cannibals. In the [...]

ed. by Leslie McGrath and Ravi Shankar Drunken Boat Press, 2010 Review by Hannah Eason Wanting to read this poetry collection within a fair context – other than the context of my unfamiliarity with Hindu American poetry, that is – I often read over notes provided by the editors who collaborated to bring these last [...]

BlazeVox, 2009 Review by Georgia Banks-Martin I live in Paran Larissa’s Shmailo’s collection of poems, In Paran is a mix of vibrant and audacious selections narrated by people that we might say are just a little odd due to their unabashed frankness. Yet, there is something about the people we meet in In Paran that [...]

The University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville, 2009 Review by Georgia Ann Banks-Martin Weapons! Everywhere! In her latest book of poems Weapons Grade, Terese Svoboda takes on issues of war, politics, and everyday life. These are themes common to poetry, but Svoboda’s work asks the reader to consider events both as wholes and within context, and [...]

Finishing Line Press, 2010 Review by Georgia Ann Banks-Martin The Human Experience Millicent Borges Accardi has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Arts, the California Arts Council, and the Barbara Deming Foundation, and her poems have been published in many well respected magazines, journals, and anthologies. However, her latest collection of poems, [...]

The University of Arizona Press, 2006 Review by Kimberly L. Becker I Write, You Listen Sara Littlecrow-Russell is Anishinaabe (Ojibway) and Han-Naxi Métis, a single mother of two, a lawyer, an anti-racist organizer, and a professional mediator. Her first book, (italics)The Secret Powers of Naming(/italics), won the Independent Publisher Book Award (Bronze in Poetry) and [...]