Book Reviews |
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| Jane Blue | "Susan Kelly-DeWitt's A Camelia for Judy" | |
| Alexander Long | "Christopher Buckley's Fall From Grace" | |
| Evan Oakley | "Veronica Patterson's Swan, What Shores" | |
| J.T. Cavender | "James Doyle's The Silk at Her Throat" | |
| Grace Cavalieri | "Ego as Beak" | |
| Grace Cavalieri | "Enhanced Gravity—More Fiction by Washingon Area Women" 500pp., $18.95 Edited by Richard Peabody |
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| Grace Cavalieri | "Why Speak" by Nathanel Bellows | |
| Grace Cavalieri | "Innocence" by Jean Nordhaus | |
| Ernie Wormwood | "Temporary Apprehensions" by Patric Pepper | |
| Daniela Gioseffi | "75 Poems on Retirement" edited by Robin Chapman & Judith Strasser | |
| Ed Zahniser | "If You’re Not Averse to Comic Verse . . ." by X. J. Kennedy | |
| Ernie Wormwood | "Falling Into Velázquez" by Mary Kaiser | |
| Mary F. Morris | "Circling Out" by Martin Galvin | |
| Grace Cavalieri | "The Matter of the Casket" by Thom Ward | |
| Grace Cavalieri | "Reunion" by Fleda Brown | |
| Grace Cavalieri | "All That Lies Between Us" by Maria Mazziotti | |
| Grace Cavalieri | "Before and After the Fall" by Sandor Csoori, translated by Len Roberts | |
| Ed Zahniser | "The Blue Train to America" by Barbara F. Lefcowitz | |
| Mary Morris | "Children Having Trouble with Meat" by Christine Hamm "OCHO #9" from MIPOesias Magazine "Best of Café’ Café’, Summer 2007" from MIPesias Print Publication |
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| Sonja James | "Resurrection of the Dust" by John McKernan | |
| Hope Maxwell-Snyder | "The Language of Loss" by Mariela Griffor | |
| Hope Maxwell-Snyder | "A Snake Charmer" by Paulo Henriques Britto | |
| Barbara Goldberg | "The Outernationale" by Peter Gizzi | |
| Amy King | "Next Life" by Rae Armantrout | |
| Ernie Wormwood | "Making a Poem: Some Thoughts About Poetry and the People Who Write It" by Miller Williams |
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| Bernadette Geyer | "Broken Hallelujahs, poems" by Sean Thomas Dougherty " | |
| Ed Zahniser | "Whiskey in the Garden of Eden" by Sarah Browning | |
| Bernadette Geyer | "Of Whiskey and Winter " by Peter Connors | |
| Grace Cavalieri | "OCHO 12-A Composite Review" by six poets | |
| Andrew Kaufman | "A Secret Room in Fall" by Maria Terrone | |
| Ethan Fischer | "Kimnama" and "More Than Anything" by Kim Roberts and Hiram Larew | |
| Whitney M. Smith | "Gentling the Bones" by Katherine E. Young | |
| Sonja James | "Little Boat" by Jean Valentine | |
| Peter Klappert | "Legacy" by Richard Harteis | |
Constance MacDonald & |
"The Steiney Road to Operadom: The Making of American Operas" |
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| Grace Cavalieri | "OCHO 15: A Composite Review" by eight poets | |
| Marviin Galvin | "A Slender Grace" by Rod Jellema | |
| Composite Review by Seven Writers |
"Against the Grain: The Literary Life of a Poet" – A Memoir by Reed Whittemore | |
| A review of two books by Ernie Wormwood |
"The Fortunate Islands and Mystery School" by Susan Kelly-Dewitt and by Bruce MacKinnon |
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| A review by Laura Orem | "Gargoyle 52" Produced by Richard Peabody | |
| A review by Mary Morris | "When I Said Goodbye" by Didi Menendez | |
| A review by Grace Cavalieri | "Lady of the Snakes" by Rachel Pastan | |
| A review by Mary Morris | "Helen Takes the Stage" The Helen Keller Poems" by Kathi Wolfe | |
| A review by Kathie Isaac-Luke | "Discount Fireworks " by Wendy Taylor Carlisle | |
| A review by Mary Morris | "Circular Stairs, Distress in the Mirrors" by Peter Kappert | |
| A review by Judy Neri | "A Quartet Sings from Finishing Line Press" by Anne Becker, Katherine Young, Jehanne Dubrow, Gretchen Primack | |
| A review by Sonja James | "A Darker, Sweeter String " by Lee Sharkey | |
| A review by Judith Harris | "Anna Nicole: POEMS" by Grace Cavalieri | |
| A review by Geoffrey Himes | "Lending Her Voice, Anna Nicole: POEMS" by Grace Cavalieri | |
| A review by Anne Caston | "Voices" by Lucille Clifton | |
| A review by Sabine Pascarelli | "Still life Without Pomegranate" by Heather Banks | |
| A review by Cheryl A. Townsend | "Voices" by Lucille Clifton | |
| A review by Barbara Goldberg | "Sum" by Yonat Hafftka | |
| A review by Laura Orem | "The Royal Baker's Daughter" by Barbara Goldberg | |
| A review by Laura Orem | "Taking the Road Where It Leads" by Andrena Zawinski | |
| A review by Ed Zahniser | "Inventory" by Cicely Angleton, Elaine Magarrell, and Reed Whittemore |
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| A review by A.B. Spellman | "Becoming Billie Holiday" by Carole Boston Weatherford, Art by Floyd Cooper |
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| A joint review by Grace Cavalieri and Merrill Leffler |
"The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest" edited by Hadley Haden Guest | |
| A review by Avideh Shashaani | "Belonging: New Poetry by Iranians around the World" translated by Niloufar Talebi |
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| A review by Richard Harteis | "My Vocabulary did This To Me, The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer" | |
| A review by Laura Orem | "Quantum Lyrics by A. Van Jordan Cradle Song by Stacey Lynn Brown" | |
| A review by Ken Jacobs | "Versed" by Rae Armantrout | |
| A review by Laura Orem | "Abraham’s Bay & Other Stories" by Jack Greer | |
| A review by Mary Morris | "Dreaming Invisible Voices: Poems" by James McGrath | |
| A review by Natalie Lobe | "Persephone" by Lyn Lifshin | |
| A memoir by Yoko Danno | "Lindley Williams Hubbell: a memoir" by Yoko Danno | |
| A review by Merrill Leffler | "The White Bride" by Sarah Maclay | |
| A review by Mary F. Morris | "Judah's Lion" by Anne Caston | |
| A review by Candace Katz | "Calvin" by William Littlejohn | |
| A review by Natalie K. Lobe | "Barbaro" by Lyn Lifshin | |
| A review by Maria van Beuren | "Carpathia" by Cecelia Woloch | |
| A review by Grace Cavalieri | "Soul-Hearted Partnership" by Debra L. Reble, Ph.D. | |
| A review by Natalie Lobe | "Dinner Date" by Judith Robinson | |
| A review by Grace Cavalieri | "War Bird" by David Gewanter | |
| A review by Caroline Malone | "The Call: An Anthology of Women's Writing" edited by Calder Lowe | |
The Editor's Showcase
| These reviews can only be found on this site! | ||
| A Review by Peter Fontaine |
"If the Heart is Lean" by Margaret Luongo |
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| A Review
by Sean Reagan |
"Reading Berryman to the Dog" | |
| A Review by James R. Sims |
"Being a Father" | |
| A Review by Norman Lang Siegel |
"Everything Else in the World " by Stephen Dunn |
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| A Review by Judith McCombs |
"Tin Mines & Concubines: Malaysian Fictions" by Hilary Tham |
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| A Review by Avideh Shashaani |
"So What" by Taha Muhammad Ali |
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| A Review by Merrill Lefler |
"Water on the Sun" by Grace Cavalieri, translated by Maria Enrico |
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| A Review by Maria Enrico |
"Talismans/Talismani – Poems/Poesie" by Maria Mazziotti Gillan, translation and preface Elizabetta Marino |
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"Books for the Turn of the Year:"
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| A Review by Sonja James | "And" by Michael Blumenthal | |
Best Picks by Grace Cavalieri
Grace Cavalieri has authored 14 books and 20 produced plays. She was a founder of radio station WPFW-FM in Washington D.C. Her program " The Poet and the Poem" has been on public radio for 30 years without interruption, now from the Library of Congress via NPR satellite. She has founded two poetry presses in Washington DC. Grace writes for stage, opera, and radio. Her play, Quilting the Sun enjoyed a staged reading at the Smithsonian Institution, and premieres at Centre Stage, S.C. in 2007.
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