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Review: Capturing the Dead

jmott — Sat, 16 May 2009 13:54:28 +0000

Capturing the Dead Daniel Nathan Terry NFSPS Press 2008

Winner of the 2007 Stevens Poetry Manuscript Competition, Capturing the Dead is everything that its title implies: a journey, an expedition, a search for phantasms and specters that, ultimately, allows us to bring home lost souls and forgotten spirits, to capture them, one by one, even as they seem to capture ...Read more

Review: Universal Monsters

jmott — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:05:52 +0000

Universal Monsters Bryan Dietrich Word Press 2007

Great movies are usually afforded sequels, great bands have sophomore albums and great writers, if we’re lucky, get the opportunity to have second books. Well, in 2007 luck was on our side. Coming out of Word Press, Bryan Dietrich’s second poetry collection Universal Monsters is a much more personal, intimate work than the ...Read more

Review: Writing Metrical Poetry

jmott — Sun, 03 May 2009 20:50:28 +0000

Writing Metrical Poetry William Baer Writer’s Digest Books 2006

If you find yourself more than a little frightened by the idea of writing formal, metrical poetry, then fear no longer. The good news is that help exists. Published in 2006, William Baer’s Writing Metrical Poetry is a great introductory-level book for the poet interested in working within popular traditional forms. ...Read more