Carta Marina by Ann Fisher-Wirth
When I read Carta Marina, I was stunned by the honesty of the speaker.While the book itself is structured very much like a novel, even hooking the reader with a something of a mystery that sets the stage for the drama of the present time of the narrative, the poems are straightforward in the way they confront the truth.In the poem "April 10, Växjö" we read:My legs across Peter’s belly,I said, “I love you both,

Passing on a Call For Poems
HEALTH & ILLNESS (Poetic Works on Health & Illness in Human Experience) The body as a text or network of texts - as a sign, a signified or a signifier, as a myth - articulated and performed by the self , the I, or by instinct, and read variously by the other, the I, the we, the subject, or the object, achieves complexity especially when set in illness and health narratives. The languages of the body in such contexts, as configured in cultural works, especially through a poetic insight, would be undoubtedly useful in trying to unders

Book Tour: At Night, The Dead
At Night, The Dead by Lisa CiccarelloFinal stop on September’s ReadWritePoem virtual book tour.Lisa Ciccarello’s chapbook is an example of why poetry books are important as works o