Review of Winterkill by Todd Davis

Posted on July 10, 2016

Michigan State University Press, 2016. $19.95 (paper) By James Crews The late poet and novelist, Jim Harrison (1937-2016) once said: “Poetry, at its best, is the language your soul would speak, if you could teach your soul to speak.” He might easily have been talking about Todd Davis, whose latest collections, In the Kingdom of […]


Review of Darkness Sticks to Everything by Tom Hennen

Posted on January 23, 2014

Copper Canyon Press, 2013 $18 paper by James Crews   I am sad to say that, perhaps like many readers, I had never heard of Tom Hennen until a poet-friend sent me a few pieces from Darkness Sticks to Everything. This volume finally collects all of Hennen’s past work, along with his new poems, into […]