I admit that I’m biased. I have been a fan of Christopher Luna’s poetry for years and I have high expectations, particularly since I know how dedicated he is- not only to the craft but to the communities that can be formed and nurtured around creative work.
Ghost Town, USA refers to the poet’s town of Vancouver, Washington, a town in the shadow of the infamous Portland. The name comes from his first impressions of the town- a place without people, even in the middle of the afternoon. For a transplanted New Yorker, this can be unsettling, and for a poet like Christopher Luna who writes from a place so rooted in observations of the tangible, one can imagine how difficult it must have been in the beginning as he struggled to get used to the silence. Continue reading
“A White Girl Lynching” by Elizabeth P. Glixman is an offering from Pudding House, an independent publisher of poetry with a reputation for selecting manuscripts from poets who “do right” by their art, meaning poets who give dutiful consideration to the process in terms of poetry as craft. Glixman’s commitment is apparent in this chapbook, as she accomplishes what she set out to do: explore “our ‘feeling’ natures as symbolized by poetry”.
