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Betsy Sholl: October 2009
The poems of Betsy Sholl reveal the habits and motions of an active human mind: the fluid unwinding of thought, the pushing forward into the space ahead, the dance of logic—sometimes stately, sometimes playful. Each measure of sound is delicately honed and flows purposefully into the next.
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Franz Wright: August 2009
Franz Wright’s poetry distills suffering, doubt, and desire into a stripped-down style that is both austere and hopeful. But a patient reading of his work reveals that Wright’s frank confessions of need and failure are anything but “confessional.”
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Christian Wiman: July 2009
Christian Wiman is a welcome voice in contemporary poetry. His is a gracious, impassioned intellect, full of both energy and gravity—and here is a broadly read writer who affirms the value of timeless religious questions.
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Terri Witek: June 2009
In her poem “Parsonage with Two Maples” (published in Image #60), Terri Witek renews Emily Dickinson’s call to “tell it slant.”
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Richard Michelson: March 2009
Richard Michelson is one of those rare writers who not only understands that comedy and tragedy are close neighbors but also enables you to feel that mysterious juxtaposition.
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Memoir by Lauren Winner, Poetry by James Harpur, Art by Guy Chase and Adrian Wiszniewski
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