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Places of Making: An Interview with Jennifer Boyden
Posted on January 16, 2013 | No Commentsby James Crews Jennifer Boyden is the author of The Mouths of Grazing Things, selected by Robert Pinsky as winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry in 2010. Her second... -
In the Dark
Posted on November 23, 2012 | No Commentsby Christopher Buckley In Memoriam: Larry Levis Waking in the dark, Daylight Savings gone, I’m remembering the Biltmore hotel in L.A., killing the afternoon at the MLA in 1981, the... -
Review of THE DIRT RIDDLES by Michael Walsh
Posted on October 22, 2012 | No CommentsUniversity of Arkansas Press, 2010 $16.00 reviewed by James Crews In the glut of poetry books being published these days, it’s easy for collections like Michael Walsh’s The Dirt Riddles... -
Once More to the Cradle
Posted on September 28, 2012 | No Commentsby David Axelrod Whenever you enjoy finding your way through a writer’s entire work, reach the end of it because he or she is no longer alive, and you can... -
Review of Paradise, Indiana by Bruce Snider
Posted on May 27, 2012 | No CommentsPleiades Press, 2012 Softcover, $16.95 Reviewed by James Crews I highly recommend getting a hold of Bruce Snider’s latest collection of poems, Paradise, Indiana and reading it back-to-back with his... -
John Davis Wins 2012 Bunchgrass Poetry Prize 2012
Posted on May 10, 2012 | No CommentsJohn Davis of Bainbridge Island, WA, is the winner of the second annual Bunchgrass Poetry Prize for his poem “Your Mustache.” The judge for this year’s competition was Michael McGriff,... -
Review of Touch by Henri Cole
Posted on April 23, 2012 | No CommentsFarrar, Straus, Giroux 2011 Hardcover, $23 by James Crews Henri Cole’s Touch is a dark but redemptive book. These poems—many of them sonnets—strike an elegiac, confessional tone as Cole reconstructs... -
Review of Forms and Hollows by Heather Dubrow
Posted on April 23, 2012 | No CommentsCherry Grove Collections, 2011 Softcover $15 Reviewed by James Crews Heather Dubrow’s first collection of poetry, Forms and Hollows, opens with an extended elegy for her mother and makes use... -
Review of On Speaking Terms by Connie Wanek
Posted on April 23, 2012 | No CommentsCopper Canyon Press, 2010 Softcover, $15.00 Reviewed by James Crews Every once in a while a book of poetry will fall into your hands and—perhaps not expecting much at first—you... -
James Crews & Travis Mossotti Reading at EOU
Posted on March 16, 2012 | No Comments