It’s been one helluva year for writing for me. I won the Jack McCarthy book prize and wrote poems that are included in my forthcoming collection, Her Whole Bright Life. I spent two weeks in Crete, writing and soaking up
December 10, 2022
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My goal for 2015 is to read more poetry and find more poets I love so I picked this up from the library. Unfortunately only one poem really stood out to me, Why My Mother is Afraid of Heights by Shevaun Brannigan. The rest were okay but ...
This was the first book I read in 2015 when I stumbled upon it while renting a house with friends over NYE. It was an interesting read with a few nuggets but not enough to warrant a great rating from me. Some of the poems seem to be tryi...
Perhaps my favorite part of this book was that the plot twist was truly a surprise - often I guess what's going to happen and while that's not necessarily a bad thing, it's also nice to be surprised once in a while. =)
The premise of this book is fantastic - an older man travels back in time to tell his younger self not to marry the love of his life, a woman named Q. The younger self follows this advice and when the future life doesn't turn out as hope...
I decided to read this book for two reasons: 1) at that time it had 12 5-star reviews on Amazon, and 2) it was free. Given it's high ratings and no cost I simply had to read. Sadly, I was nothing but disappointed with this book.
The cha...
