“This Is a Junior”: On Meeting Roethke

by William Pitt Root In spring term 1963 at UW, I attended Theodore Roethke’s class in an overcrowded room in Parrington Hall. I’d heard that on his way to his classes he greatly resembled a wounded elephant. To me he seemed more like a large, beardless, out of work Santa Claus (pink cheeks, white hair, […]

Four Recent Chapbooks

The Laughing Game by Marianne Kunkel Finishing Line Press, 2012 $14 paper the lake has no saint by Stacey Waite Tupelo Press, 2010 $9.95 paper The Edge of Damage by Heather Swan Parallel Press, 2009 $12 paper My Life as an Island by Travis Mossotti Moon City Press, 2013 $7.95 paper Reviewed by James Crews […]

Review of Incarnadine by Mary Szybist

Graywolf Press, 2013 $10 paper By James Crews It’s been ten years since Mary Szybist’s first collection, Granted (2003), was published to much acclaim, and lucky for us, Szybist did not rush her next book of poems. Reading through her second collection, Incarnadine, published by Graywolf Press earlier this year, one gets the sense that […]