National Poetry Month

Gently Read Literature
2nd Year Anniversary
When Will We Stop Swimming? Nathan Logan on Amy King’s Slaves To Do These Things
In the Beginning: Dennis Etzel Jr. on Mathias Svalina’s Destruction Myth
You’ve Been Warned: Jen Michalski on American Soma by Savannah Schroll Guz
Lost Inside Maryam: Marcia Lynx Qualey on Mansoura Ez Eldin’s Maryam’s Maze
My Turn to Praise: Rick Marlatt on Jack Henry’s With the Patience of Monuments
Slip Back Into Living: Glenda Burgess on JW Marshall’s Meaning A Cloud
The Dialogue of Origin and Ear: Zach Savich on Joshua Harmon’s Scape
Temporary Stars: David James on Keith Taylor’s If the World Becomes So Bright
Without That Tequila: James Tolan on Kim Addonizio’s Lucifer at the Starlite
Breaking the Law: Jim Ruland on Patrick Somerville’s The Cradle
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Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the Women’s National Book Association (WNBA) Award. Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She co-edited with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She also co-edits the anthology series, Bettering American Poetry, and is a professor of creative writing at SUNY Nassau Community College.