Review: SKIN HORSE by Olivia Cronk
Skin Horse Olivia Cronk 2012 Action Books 72 pages Review by MATTHEW MAHANEY As others have pointed out, Skin Horse is not your standard book of poems, first or otherwise. This is not surprising if you’ve read Olivia Cronk’s poems in various journals over the past few...
An Interview with GC Waldrep
Interview by LISA TALLIN Black Warrior Review: So first of all I just wanted to ask you—you had a reading last night, and how do you feel reading your work out loud? GC Waldrep: How do I feel? I like to read my work out loud. I trained as a singer and the idea that...
Review: A HISTORY OF WAVES by Haines Eason
A History of Waves Haines Eason 2010 Poetry Society of America 25 pages Review by J. KIRK MAYNARD Haines Eason’s first chapbook A History of Waves (selected by Mark Doty for the 2010 New American Poets chapbook series) begins with a displacement: Who touched who with...