CL Bledsoe from Coal Hill Review was thrilled to read Jessy Randall's collection:
"Randall's poems waste no words: they are often short but pack a powerful punch. Her language is clean and precise, which allows her to sneak-attack the reader with profound images."
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Jessica Dyer from Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal reviews Lillian-Yvonne Bertram's But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise.-
"Like the strands of DNA that make up living things, like the strings of stars that make up our galaxy, so too are Lillian-Yvonne Bertram’s poems chains of complex humming thrumming particles of the universe."
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Abby Soto from The Seattle Lesbian applauds Kelly Barth's memoir:
"My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus is the type of memoir that speaks truth to power in a way that is impossible to ignore."
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Jessy Randall's Injecting Dreams into Cows is praised by Lisa Grove from the California Journal of Poetics.-
“By the end of Injecting Dreams into Cows Randall has created a time kabob that’s both relevant and engrossing by successfully skewering the past, present, and future.”
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Rodney Wittwer's Gone & Gone is reviewed by Mead magazine for their Fall 2012 volume.-
"This first collection is marked by the authority and fearlessness of the voice, one willing to say and risk much in poems that are fresh, vivid, and, at a time when books often echo one another, utterly unique."
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Sandra Knauf praises Jessy Randall's Injecting Dreams into Cows for Rattle.-
"Her scope is kaleidoscopic. She treasures and shares found poems. She digs deep and uses all the emotions in the crayon box–and we love her for it."
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DLKeur from The Deepening reviews and praises Jessy Randall's Injecting Dreams into Cows.-
Sometimes sexy, often hilarious, strange and yet familiar, the poems in Injecting Dreams into Cows will leave you “gasping with delight and deliciousness.”
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Dan Barnett reviews Gary Lemons' reading of Snake at the Butte College Reading Series.
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J de Salvo from the The Bicycle Review praises Brendan Constantine's Calamity Joe. –
“Constantine has always been a poet who was admired for his wit, his line, and for inventing situations which combined comedy and substance so effectively that it was hard to think it could get much better than that.”
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Here's what Michael Peck from Missoula Independent had to say about Kelly Barth's My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus. –
"Unflinching and funny, the book concerns itself with the seeming impossibility of coming out gay in an extreme Christian milieu and, at the same time, coming out Christian in an increasingly secular era. Barth picks her tongue-in-cheek moments, saving them for her most absurd anecdotes… But this isn't just a droll coming-out story; it's a serious expose of organized intolerance, which explores antagonism and social issues of dignity."
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Kaye Lynne Booth from Examiner.com reviews Jessy Randall's Injecting Dreams into Cows in a recent article.-
"[Randall] has a knack for using language to surprise us and catch us off guard, causing readers to come up short and view things in ways that we have never seen them before…"
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Annie McCormick praises Alice Derry's Tremolo in a recent review for Booklist. –
“Derry’s quietly captivating collection connects us through each merciless tremble and reverberating refrain. It’s as if one’s existence were a verse and each memory a note that, when strung together, resounded within the imperfect, delicate symphony of life.”
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Here's what Isaac Dwyer had to say about Brendan Constantine's Calamity Joe in a recent review for Parallax. –
“Calamity Joe is quirky, clever, and just past the level of standard comprehension. Reading it is a worthy tour through the mind of a breathtakingly beautiful poet, and it sticks and jams itself into an unknown, and yet not entirely unfamiliar, niche of even the most cultured of poetic brains.”
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Gary Dop had this to say about Ship of Fool by William Trowbridge in New Letters Magazine. –
“William Trowbridge’s Ship of Fool, through laughs and gaffes, reveals that, like it or not, we are, at our best and worst, playing the Fool.”
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Here's what Cindy Sheppard had to say about My Almost Certainly Real Imaginary Jesus in a recent post on her blog, Cinzia, Lady in Weighting. –
“This is a book that anyone on a faith journey should read. It is a book about a person. Someone with an aspect of their personhood that isn't readily accepted by everyone else – yes. But isn't that true of us all?”
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