THEOPHOBIA

Bruce Beasley BOA Editions ($16) by Spencer Dew Able to breed only inside the feline digestive tract,Toxoplasma gondii is a parasite, that works its way deep

PLUME

Kathleen Flenniken University of Washington Press ($24.95) by John Bradley How do you encompass a danger that’s not perceptible to our senses, and, harder still,

STEAM LAUNDRY

Nicole Stellon O’Donnell Boreal Books ($19.95) by Julie Swarstad Johnson In his essay collection Strange Good Fortune, poet David Wojahn describes the “preponderance of first books

PUBLIC FIGURES

Jena Osman Wesleyan University Press ($22.95) by Rachel Trousdale In Public Figures, her fourth book, Jena Osman gives herself an assignment: “Photograph the figurative statues that

ROUGH, AND SAVAGE

Sun Yung Shin Coffee House Press ($16) by Laila Rode Simon The fiery depths of the Hell created by Dante Alighieri in 1861 contain eight

GONE & GONE

Rodney Wittwer Red Hen Press ($17.95) by Ralph Pennel Gone & Gone, Rodney Wittwer’s debut poetry collection, bears the grace of a poet writing at

In Praise of Sentences

by Louis Phillips “A sentence is a sound in itself in which other sounds called words may be strung.” —Robert Frost There is no reason

THE POETRY OF ATHENA KILDEGAARD

Rare Momentum Red Dragonfly Press ($15) Bodies of Light Red Dragonfly Press ($15) Cloves & Honey Nodin Press ($16) by James Naiden First collections of

THE NEW MIDWESTERN

a review of Broken Gates Ken McCullough Red Dragonfly Press ($15) Confluence of Mysterious Origins William Waltz Factory Hollow Press ($7) by William Stobb Having