Joanne Durham
To Drink from a Wider Bowl
Evening Street Press, 2022
$15
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James Crews writes about To Drink from a Wider Bowl, winner of the Sinclair Poetry Prize: “What she has drawn for us here is nothing less than a map of how to navigate our days with honesty, grace, and a deep mindfulness that leaves nothing unnoticed. Her richly layered and musical poems bear the contours of every phase of life… This is a beautiful, timely book you’ll want to pick up again and again.”
Poems read:
“Old Folks”
“Reset”
“Brothers in Arms Valentine’s Day Gun Sale”
“Where They Go”
“Maps”
Kashiana Singh
Woman by the Door
Apprentice House Press, 2022
$12.99
Playlist:
“For Kabir”
“How a woman delivers hope” “Finding Prayer”
Richard Tillinghast
Blue If Only I Could Tell You
White Pine Press, 2022
$17.00
Playlist:
“The Boar": Inter-species communications fascinate me. The challenge here was to try and comprehend the thinking of this wild boar, and how to translate his squeals and roars—and even his thoughts!— into English. It's all whimsical, of course; but I relished the attempt. “Boat": weather and how a Taoist understanding fits into everyday life. “Blue If Only I Could Tell You": I went to art school when I was younger, my girlfriend is a painter, and the meanings of colors play an important part in my understanding of things.