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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
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Jon Davis Reading at EOU
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NewPages Review of basalt vol 6, no 1
Posted on March 15, 2012 | No CommentsBasalt Volume 6 Number 1 2011 Annual Review by Robyn Campbell Although Basalt is based in and linked to the state of Oregon—taking its name from the igneous rock prevalent... -
Review of The Salt Ecstasies by James L. White
Posted on March 14, 2012 | No CommentsThe Salt Ecstasies by James L. White Graywolf Press Re/View Series, Soft, $15 Reviewed by James Crews James L. White’s The Salt Ecstasies, recently re-issued by Graywolf Press for their... -
An Occupation
Posted on March 14, 2012 | No Commentsby David A. Axelrod In his recent blog posts to this site, “Is Myth Still Relevant to Poetry,” James Crews revisits Tony Hoagland’s essay, in Real Sofistikashun, about the “skittery”... -
Review of About the Dead by Travis Mossotti,
Posted on March 14, 2012 | No CommentsAbout the Dead by Travis Mossotti, Utah State University Press, Cloth $19.95 reviewed by James Crews In his 2011 May Swenson Award-winning first book, About the Dead, Travis Mossotti sketches... -
Is Poetry Gay?
Posted on March 14, 2012 | No Commentsby James Crews On a flight from San Francisco to Chicago a few years ago, I happened to be reading a book of poetry—Charles Wright’s Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems.... -
Review of Come, Thief by Jane Hirshfield
Posted on March 14, 2012 | No CommentsCome, Thief by Jane Hirshfield Knopf, Cloth $25 Reviewed by James Crews In her now-classic book of essays on the craft of poetry, Nine Gates, Jane Hirshfield writes, “Solitude, whether... -
Upcoming Readings at EOU
Posted on March 9, 2012 | No CommentsMaxine Scates March 14 • 7:30 p.m. • Huber Auditorium Scates is the author most recently of Undone (New Issues Press). She is coeditor, with David Trinidad, of Holding Our...