A Review of Jesse Nathan’s Eggtooth

Eggtooth, like most debuts, is a book about growing up. Raised in Kansas on a family farm, Jesse Nathan writes meditations in place. A grounding observation begins many of these poems—“Dame’s Rocket,”…

A Review of Erin Marie Lynch’s Removal Acts

Inspired by a photo time-stamped “07/14/04” of her great-great grandmother Elisabeth’s tombstone, Erin Marie Lynch writes in her poem “Live Stream,” “whoever in the flesh picked / the roses arranged them left…

A Review of Karl Geary’s Juno Loves Legs

When family lies at the root of misfortune, resilience can be awfully hard to come by. This holds doubly true for teenagers on the depressed outskirts of 1980s Dublin. And it is…