To Sturgeon,
2014
Western Michigan University
Black Water In Prague,
2014
Western Michigan University
Solitude,
2014
Western Michigan University
Concerto In E-Minor,
2014
Western Michigan University
Little Brother's Hand,
2014
Western Michigan University
Easter Falls On Sunday And He Carves The Ham,
2014
Western Michigan University
Easter Falls On Sunday And He Carves The Ham, Sean Hoen
The Laureate
No abstract provided.
Pika,
2014
Western Michigan University
Everything, Now By Jessica Moore And Birds, Metals, Stones & Rain By Russell Thornton,
2014
University of British Columbia, Okanagan
Everything, Now By Jessica Moore And Birds, Metals, Stones & Rain By Russell Thornton, Kelly Dean Shepherd
The Goose
Review of Everything, Now by Jessica Moore and Birds, Metals, Stones & Rain by Russell Thornton.
Breakdown Lane,
2014
The University of San Francisco
Breakdown Lane, Robert Phillips
Ontario Review
Robert Phillips' fifth collection of poems, Breakdown Lane, is forthcoming from Johns Hopkins. A contributing editor of OR, he is the director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston.
House Of Childhood, A Moment, Everything,
2014
The University of San Francisco
House Of Childhood, A Moment, Everything, Gregory Orr
Ontario Review
Gregory Orr has recently completed two collections, The Marble Forest, from which these poems are taken, and a booklength sequence based on the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. A collection of his essays, Richer Entanglements, appeared last fall from the University of Michigan in its Poets on Poetry series. He directs the MFA Program at the University of Virginia.
Going To China Girls, The Agit-Prop Train V.I. Lenin No. 1, Not Everybody Loves A Uniform,
2014
The University of San Francisco
Going To China Girls, The Agit-Prop Train V.I. Lenin No. 1, Not Everybody Loves A Uniform, Page Dougherty Delano
Ontario Review
Page Dougherty Delano's poems have appeared recently in The Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, and Thirteenth Moon. She is currently working on a manuscript of poems, Victory Girls, about women in World War II. She teaches at Hunter College, and lives in New York City.
In Praise Of The Bathos,
2014
The University of San Francisco
In Praise Of The Bathos, Albert Goldbarth
Ontario Review
Albert Goldbarth's most recent book is Across the Layers: Poems Old and New (Georgia). Winner of the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award, he is Distinguished Professor of Humanities at Wichita State University in Kansas.
Incognito, And Not & Other Poems,
2014
The University of San Francisco
Incognito, And Not & Other Poems, Lynn Mcgee
Ontario Review
Lynn McGee, a former OR contributor, has published poems recently in Painted Bride Quarterly and fiction in Northwest Review. She lives in Brooklyn.
Saturday,
2014
The University of San Francisco
Saturday, Brooks Haxton
Ontario Review
Brooks Haxton's most recent books are Dead Reckoning and Traveling Company. New poems of his are in The Atlantic, Paris Review, Yale Review, and other journals. He teaches at Syracuse University.
In The Cemetery High Above Shillington,
2014
The University of San Francisco
In The Cemetery High Above Shillington, John Updike
Ontario Review
John Updike's Collected Poems 1953-1993 was published by Knopf last spring. His most recent novel is Brazil. A frequent OR contributor, he lives in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts.
X: Poems & Anti-Poems By Shane Rhodes,
2014
University of Calgary
X: Poems & Anti-Poems By Shane Rhodes, Tom Miller
The Goose
A review of Shane Rhodes' X: Poems & Anti-Poems. This review focuses on the link between language and landscape, and considers the ways in which that link, reflected in Rhodes' work, comments upon the use of language as an oppressive tool in the treatment of Native Americans and Canadians.
"The Amusement Park Of Natural Disasters",
2014
The University of San Francisco
"The Amusement Park Of Natural Disasters", Denver Butson
Ontario Review
Denver Butson's three books of poetry are triptych (The Commoner Press, 1999), Mechanical Birds (St. Andrews Press, 2001), and illegible address (Luquer Street Press, 2004).
"Mechanical Horse With Girl And Bees",
2014
The University of San Francisco
"Mechanical Horse With Girl And Bees", Paula Bohince
Ontario Review
Paula Bohince is the author of Incident at the Edge of Bayonet Woods (Sarabande Books, 2008). She has received the "Discovery" /The Nation Award and the Amy Clampitt Resident Fellowship.
"Bust," "Working In Flour",
2014
The University of San Francisco
"Bust," "Working In Flour", Jeff Friedman
Ontario Review
Jeff Friedman's fourth collection of poetry, Black Threads, was published by Carnegie Mellon University Press in 2007. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Margie, Poetry, Agni Online, and The New Republic. He is a core faculty member in the M.F.A Program in Poetry at New England College.
"Mrs. Grossheim's, 1955," "Never Again",
2014
The University of San Francisco
"Mrs. Grossheim's, 1955," "Never Again", Ronald Wallace
Ontario Review
Ron Wallace is the author of twelve books of poetry, fiction, and criticism, including For a Limited Time Only: Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008) and Long for this World: New and Selected Poems (Pittsburgh, 2003). He codirects the creative writing program at the University of Wisconsin and edits the University of Wisconsin Press poetry series.
