Dakota R. Garilli is a queer poet, essayist, and educator living in Pittsburgh, PA. Their work has been published or is forthcoming in Homology Lit, Fodor’s Online, Pretty Owl Poetry, Weave, and elsewhere. They are managing and poetry editor for IDK Magazine. Dakota’s chapbook, Call It Something Different, was published by Seven Kitchens Press in …
All night in the new country by Miriam Bird Greenberg Sixteen Rivers Press, 2013 $10.00 What do we become when stripped to our barest selves? By delivering us into an apocalypse laden with memory of the world that came before, Miriam Bird Greenberg’s All night in the new country goes a long way toward answering …
Goddess Wears Cowboy Boots Poems by Katherine Hoerth Lamar University Press, 2014 $15.00 The deities of ancient Greece are transplanted onto the Texan landscape in Katherine Hoerth’s Goddess Wears Cowboy Boots. Here, love and womanhood bud, flower, and fade on dusty back roads and along the Gulf of Mexico. Hoerth’s new mythology illustrates her speaker’s …
The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog Poems by Alicia Suskin Ostriker University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014 $15.95 “A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing,” said Gertrude Stein. Alicia Suskin Ostriker borrows those words for the epigraph of her newest poetry collection The Old …
Best Bones Poems by Sarah Rose Nordgren University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014 $15.95 Into the Woods might not have taken home an Oscar, but its recent Disney reboot proves we’re still a culture that values fairy tales. One of my favorite moments from that score comes from the song “Stay With Me,” when the Witch …
The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards Poems by Rachel Mennies Goodmanson Texas Tech University Press, 2014 $17.95 Faith is a lineage: cultural, familial, political, a heritage in some ways inescapable. This is by no means a new idea, but that doesn’t stop Rachel Mennies Goodmanson from exploring it in active, surprising ways in her …
More Money Than God Poems by Richard Michelson Pitt Poetry Series, 2015 $15.95 Balanced on the threshold of misery and comedy, Richard Michelson’s More Money Than God is an examination of the intersections where personal tragedy and global suffering meet. In Michelson’s fourth collection, we find poems that seek resolution but settle for meaninglessness, all …
The Holy Ghost People A Play in Verse by Joshua Young Plays Inverse Press, 2013 $12.95 The power of drama is that it plays back to us the human condition in a way that, while not always wholly realistic, seems just real enough for us to understand and absorb. Add to that the connotative meaning-making …