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Necessary Speech

Author: Michael Salcman

A Prague Spring, reviewed by Michael Dennis

ReviewsMichael SalcmanDecember 12, 2019

“This is history rendered as sorrow and spoken clearly.” Read the full review.

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Loch Raven Review: A Prague Spring reviewed by Christopher T. George

ReviewsMichael SalcmanDecember 11, 2016

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.

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Essay by Margaret Soltan about “September Sonnet” by Michael Salcman

EssaysMichael SalcmanSeptember 11, 2016

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…

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News
  • In “Poetry for a Pandemic Spring,” Meg Schoerke reviewed SHADES & GRACES: New Poems (Spuyten Duyvil, 2020) for The Hudson Review
  • Feb. 24, 2021: Reading hosted by South Florida Poetry Journal
  • Inaugural reading for Shades & Graces at The Ivy Book Shop, August 26, 2020
  • Review of Shades & Graces in South Florida Poetry Journal by Robert Cooperman, August 2020
  • Shades & Graces reviewed in The Loch Raven Review, June 2020

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