In “Poetry for a Pandemic Spring,” Meg Schoerke reviewed SHADES & GRACES: New Poems (Spuyten Duyvil, 2020) for The Hudson Review
Meg Schoerke’s review appeared in the Spring 2021 issue.
Meg Schoerke’s review appeared in the Spring 2021 issue.
Coming in February, join me for a virtual joint poetry reading with Cynthia Atkins via Zoom. The event starts at 7:30 PM on Wednesday, February 24, 2021 and we will each read for 25 to 30 minutes. The reading is sponsored by the South Florida Poetry Journal (SoFloPoJo) and hosted by Judy Ireland. I will…
“This is history rendered as sorrow and spoken clearly.” Read the full review.
In short, this is an erudite and highly rewarding collection. For many reasons, it is arguably Michael Salcman’s life work. And bravo for it. You can read the full review on the Loch Raven Review website.
From her blog University Diaries: 9/11 Again… … and we go to poetry to make us feel and see it once more with its meanings intact. It’s hard to write a poem about an atrocity. Many 9/11 poems are long personal narratives of the event: scenes witnessed in Lower Manhattan, the way the collapse looked…