THE IMPORTANT THING IS…Card Game

reviewed by Richard Holinger

Originally published on October 1, 2010

“Look! Up on the shelf!” “It’s a game!” “It’s a Ouija board!” “No, it’s a poetry chapbook!”

Hints and Allegations: poems by Amanda J. Bradley

reviewed by Richard Holinger

Originally published on August 1, 2010

Hints and Allegations, Poems by Amanda J. Bradley. NYQ Books. New York, 2009. 74 pages. $14.95. The feisty and assertive nature of the unnamed protagonist in many of Amanda J. Bradley’s poems is as compelling and well-defined as a novelist’s. The apparently autobiographical rendering of an emotional breakup serves to structure the book thematically, if [...]

Lunch on the Grass

by Richard Holinger

Originally published on July 1, 2010

They won’t ask realistic questions because they will be too shocked with style to fixate on content.

The Other

reviewed by Richard Holinger

Originally published on October 20, 2009

“The present volume celebrates Dana’s age — in all its meanings — with simple reminiscences delivered with gravity and grace, the poems’ speakers conversationally guiding us through recollections when on the beach, in the mountains, abroad in Europe and, his favorite setting, around his Iowa home….”