Category Archives: Currently reading

So far I’ve completely read 95 books and chapbooks this year. These are the ones that impressed me most, in no particular order: poetry: Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences by Jan Zwicky (Gaspereau Press, 2005) Thirty-Three by Geoffrey Young (above/ground, 2017) the lithium body by Sarah MacDonnell (in/words, 2017) Class Proof by Deonte Osayande (Urban Farmhouse […]

Kilby Smith-McGregor‘s Kids in Triage happened to be in my bag to read, just in case whatever delay, when mom ended up getting reassessed at the e/r. 4 hours waiting and for her to get antibiotic i.v. (Among it all, I got as far as p.10 in the first visit of 4) Apocrypha First do […]

1. Silence by Nora Parker Cox, illus., Anna Bongiovanni (Hucklenut Press, 2016) – breathtaking. It has a refrain of “This is a biography in silence.” It doesn’t grow redundant but forceful of pushback. Cowed into, gaslighted into, correctness cornered into the silence which will not, does not stand. It feels like a coming of (feminist) age […]

16% of the completed books or chapbooks were chapbooks. All averaged to 139 pages, a total of 23,800 pages. 64% was poetry. Of the 30% not poetry, the largest categories were novels, memoirs, then science and essays. 43% male, 44% female, 13% multiple authors or non-binary. Non-binary-authored:4 out of 5, male-authored I ranked 35 out […]

Funny, some knock you flat like the roadrunner beeping thru and you recall nothing later. Others stick with you like a sea anemone on a ocean snail. Particularly Recommended in bold A Profession of Hope: Farming on the Edge of Grizzly Trail by Jenna Butler (Wolsak & Wynn, 2015) — gives a look at how […]