poetry reviews

Round-ups from the Minneapolis Star Tribune

Michael Kleber-Diggs, torrin a. greathouse, Moheb Soliman, and Matt Mauch

​Heid Erdrich, Michael Torres, Eireann Lorsung,  and Diane Glancy

Lee Ann Roripaugh, Ed Bok Lee, Ilya Kaminsky, and Freya Manfred

Andrea Gibson, Mary Moore Easter, and Ryan Vine 

Dore Kiesselbach, Micheal Dennis Browne, Hieu Minh Nguyen, and  Fady Joudah

Danez Smith, Michael Bazzett, Matt Mauch, Mary Jo Bang, and Donte Collins

Heid Erdrich, Christ Santiago, Diane Glancy, Amy Munson, Su Smallen, & Todd Boss

Sun Yung Shin, Linda LaGarde Grover, & Kaethe Schwehn

Connie Wanek, Ray Gonzalez, Gretchen Marquette, Chris Martin, Anna George Meek, & Rachel Mortiz

Ada Limón, Madelon Sprengnether, Joyce Sutphen, Francine Sterle, & Freya Manfred

Farzana Marie, Mary Jo Bang, Susan Deborah King, Michael Dennis Browne, & Brian Laidlaw

Ray Gonzalez, Lynette Reini-Grandell, Michael Bazzett, & Alixa Doom

David Mura, James Cihlar, Wang Ping, Kate Green, & Sheila Packa

Anna George Meek, Kathleen Jesme, Su Smallen, & Peter Campion

Cullen Bailey Burns, Patricia Barone, & Gwen Nell Westerman

Janet Jerve, William D. Waltz, & Louis Jenkins

Lightsey Darst, Matt Mauch, & Joyce Sutphen

Sarah Fox, Dobby Gibson, & Matt Rasmussen

Anna George Meek, Kathleen Jesme, Su Smallen, & Peter Campion

Sun Yung Shin, Leslie Adrienne Miller, Dore Kiesselbach, & Patricia Kirkpatrick

Heid Erdrich, Ethna McKiernan, & Cary Waterman

Mary Kay Rummel, Kathryn Kysar, & Jenna Le
Single author reviews

Homie by Danez Smith (Minneapolis Star Tribune) 

tsunami vs. the fukushima 50 by Lee Ann Roripaugh

Thicket by Cate Peebles (Iowa Review)

New Poets of Native Nations by Heid Erdich, Editor (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

Whereas by Layli Long Soldier (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

Review of God Games by Kristen Renzi (Prairie Schooner)

Review of Pantone by Shayla Lawson (Tupelo Quarterly)

Thousand Star Hotel by Bao Phi (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

Beautiful Zero by Jennifer Willoughby (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

Stealing Sugar from the Castle by Robert Bly (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

Repeat the Flesh in Numbers by Kris Bigalk (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

The Alphabet Not Unlike the World by Katrina Vandenberg (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

The Reindeer Camps by Barton Sutter (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

Human Chain by Seamus Heaney (Pittsburgh Post Gazette)

Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries by Helen Vendler (Pittsburgh Post Gazette)

Pitch by Todd Boss (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

Things to Say to a Dead Man by Jane Yolen (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

Fall Higher by Dean Young (Los Angeles Times)

Talking Into the Ear of a Donkey by Robert Bly (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

Witnesses, Chronicles, and Participants (West Branch Wired)

The Chameleon Couch by Yusef Komunyakaa (Dallas Morning News)

World Tree by David Wojahn (Pittsburgh Post Gazette)