I cannot say enough about the generosity of Dayna Patterson, not to mention the incredible quality of her beautiful poetry. I am honored to share her review of A Godless Ascends just published by Mom Egg Review. If you are not familiar with Patterson’s work, please visit her […]
I’d like to build on Deborah Bacharach’s guest author post from January 24, 2021, “My Year of Writing Poetry Book Reviews,” especially what she says about not writing a review that declares whether a poem (or a volume of them) is good or bad but saying what a […]
In my thirty years of writing, I had only published four poetry book reviews until last year. So ending the year with sixteen reviews written and published took a major shift in attitude and practice. You could do this too. why review Reviewing is certainly about being a […]
1. I come to reviewing as a reader, a simple lover of books. For many years, I believed that loving a book was not reason enough to review it. I believed that one needed special degrees in judgement in order to be able to speak of books with […]
The listings below are literary magazines and journal I found which do not charge submission fees and accept unsolicited submission of book reviews. A few are paying, some are print publications, some require a query before you send a review to make sure it’s not a book for […]
A few years ago, I wrote a post here about how to promote a book of poetry with a chronic illness or a disability. That post was a digest of ideas from my how-to book from Two Sylvias Press, PR for Poets. With everything going on, I thought […]
For my previous poetry collections, I had kept my endorsements close to home, inviting poets I knew personally and whose passionate support I could trust. In all honesty, I also feared it an imposition to contact "big names" in our poetry community whose work I admired yet to […]
Underline Poetry – Broadcast & Archive launched on August 15th, 2018, as a poetry-based web-series. The first two episodes are available either on YouTube (we'd love for you to subscribe: http://bit.ly/UnderlineYT) or on the Underline Poetry Co. website (www.UnderlinePoetry.org). Our website also showcases: additional information regarding Underline Poetry […]
Underline Poetry – Broadcast & Archive launched on August 15th, 2018, as a poetry-based web-series. The first two episodes are available either on YouTube (we'd love for you to subscribe: http://bit.ly/UnderlineYT) or on the Underline Poetry Co. website (www.UnderlinePoetry.org). Our website also showcases: additional information regarding Underline Poetry […]
Sometimes people come to me to ask for advice on how to write a book review. My internal response is "I don't know," and yet, I've written nearly 30 book reviews in the past twelve months. Instead of this unhelpful answer I tell them--remain open, put aside yourself […]
