by Sarah Hutchins | Apr 25, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Poetry, Portland Authors
Sunset in Wonderland “I am always doing this. Walking around the old neighborhood, always sixteen, moody and stealing cigarettes” (36). I read Wonderland by native-Portlander Matthew Dickman. I read not about a Portlandia-version. I read about a place...
by Megan McIntyre | Jan 30, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Children's, Poetry
Daniel Miyares has illustrated a vivid, engaging version of Langston Hughes’ 1924 poem “Dream Variation.” And despite almost a hundred years since it was penned, Hughes’ seventy-seven-word work still rings with truth and dreams. While we don’t have...
by Julia Gaskill | Jan 2, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Poetry
The world is truly in an age of good poetry. If one knows where to look, new publications of poems are everywhere, filling readers with awe and inspiration. Button Poetry – well known for their YouTube channel of popular slam poets performing and competing – has been...
by Julia Gaskill | Dec 4, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Poetry
In this day and age, it’s hard to dispute the importance of a voice; moreover, particular voices. Diversity in voice and story has never been more important. We need people of all races, religions, sexualities, sexual identities, etc. telling stories – whether...
by Mary-Lynne Monroe | Nov 3, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Humor, Poetry, Reference, Sponsored
From the beginning, Barrie Gauthier sets forward that his new book, The Black Cat Guide to Grammar Through Light Verse, is intended to provide entertainment as well as education. Many of his verses in its pages do bring out a smile. From the first poem, a...
by Sarah Hutchins | Sep 5, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Books About Books, Education, Parenting & Families, Poetry
Several books on the market instruct would-be poets how to write poems into their types – haiku, sonnet, ballad, limerick, and more. Other tomes deconstruct what makes classic poems great – the symbolism, metaphors, and so on. Matthew Zapruder, an...
