2017
REVIEW: ON NOT LOSING MY FATHER'S ASHES IN THE FLOOD | BY RICHARD HARRISON
Buckrider Books | 84 pages | $18.00 | Purchase online Review by Sharon Berg — Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. –Spenser Johnson Richard Harrison has written an honest, poetic journal of his search for meaning during the aftermath from a) gradually releasing his father, who…
Read MoreREVIEW: FOREIGN SKIN | BY KATE ROGERS
Aeolus House | 84 pages | $20.00 | Purchase online Review by John Oughton — This is Kate Rogers’ third book, preceded by City of Stairs and Painting the Borrowed House. In this collection, her double(d) identity as a Canadian teaching at a community college in Hong Kong informs the writing. In a hectic, entrepreneurial metropolis — a “high wire…
Read MoreREVIEW: SERPENTINE LOOP | ELEE KRALJII GARDINER
Anvil Press | 104 pages | 2016 | $18.00 | Purchase online “Remembered Symmetris” — review by Aaron Boothby, excerpted from original publication on Debutantes. — So much swings on the hinge of what is remembered without being often thought of. To encounter a book titled Serpentine Loop, icy – riverine forms drawn on the cover-becomes…
Read MoreNPM17 POSTER AND BOOKMARK
We are so grateful to Kate Hargreaves for her amazing work designing our 2017 National Poetry Month bookmarks and posters! Our 2017 theme is time, and Kate interpreted this in a unique way that delighted all of us here at the League when we saw her first drafts: When I thought about what “time” meant to…
Read MoreGet Involved with National Poetry Month
Every year come April, we get so excited to read and promote poetry for four solid weeks as we celebrate National Poetry Month! We love getting to chat with poets, we love organizing our own events and seeing what comes into our calendar, and most of all we love seeing how all of you take part in…
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