A vivid life force surges through That Gorgeous Feeling asserting and affirming the bounty of social complexity in... More > electrified fields of discourse, lived engagement and cultural consciousness. This is tremendously rich language. Acting as lightning rods these poems feed energy along pathways of courageous, dissonant ethical charges. Sueyuen Juliette Lee unsettles illusions, pushes at questionable foregrounding elements, swerves, permeates and injects syntax with intensified feeling. Her words have agency. These poems are full of finesse, radiance and are unsettlingly real. --Brenda Iijima < Less

a chapbook of poems by Kimiko Hahn

poetry by Denise Duhamel and Amy Lemmon

Reading Gina Myers is like the pleasure of listening to the most quiet notes in Morty Feldman's music. It's a green music... More > where everything is convincing, simply refined and secretly fiery. The poetry seems to have taken a polygraph test and has the truthfulness of an injured voice. Photographs of loving are here
and also the very global shifts between her Michigan and her New York. It's humble and observant as the figurative art of Schuyler, but there is always a funny pointillism that points to nothing except love without hope. A whole year
in single sighs, the scale being life-size: a world of yes and no, a long poem in arpeggios, and full disclosure as a fear and poetics. --David Shapiro < Less

When you pick up PINK AND HOT PINK HABITAT go directly to the table of contents, look at the titles there, you want to read... More > the poems called by these names, then go to the first poem, being afraid is a good thing, then go to "Watch the Village," and then find the poem where it's written: we do not need a/country. We can destroy ourselves here. Somewhere in these pages Lyalin writes, "I start the time machine." Well, she does, and the heart machine and the brain machine, her poems can go anywhere, and they choose to go where it matters. These poems are gorgeous, surprising, full of necessary knowledge and feeling.

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A vivid life force surges through That Gorgeous Feeling asserting and affirming the bounty of social complexity in... More > electrified fields of discourse, lived engagement and cultural consciousness. This is tremendously rich language. Acting as lightning rods these poems feed energy along pathways of courageous, dissonant ethical charges. Sueyuen Juliette Lee unsettles illusions, pushes at questionable foregrounding elements, swerves, permeates and injects syntax with intensified feeling. Her words have agency. These poems are full of finesse, radiance and are unsettlingly real. --Brenda Iijima < Less

“Everything is hot when taken / out of the body and into town.” If maps could have weather, I’d say: here’s a map of... More > that journey, from the body into town and back. If a map could have sound—regional dialect sung by a shape-shifter “real buddy-buddy with the multiple / inlets.” The Bo Diddley epigraph sets the tone, but Heron/Girlfriend is a woman’s song. “Everyone looks / into my hollow and hollers / their own names. / I give holy hell / back in pieces.” It’s hot. --Kate Greenstreet < Less

What used to be called “the war between the sexes” is now being duked out with great passion and finesse by Reb... More > Livingston in this collection of take-no-prisoners poems. In Your Ten Favorite Words no one is let off the hook, least of all the feisty scribe herself. Sassy, freaky, comic, vulnerable, and to use her one of her very own neologisms, “gleefullized,” Reb Livingston’s poems are a shot in the arm and a throb in the brain, a rebellious erotics of language, an irrepressible manifesto of the vagaries of the libido, complete with deep mischievousness and dark misgivings. If you’ve been wondering where poems by the next generation of whip smart, tender/tough women can be found: Eureka! A book full of them is right here.

--Amy Gerstler < Less