Here’s to another year of celebrating poetry!
Each book I reviewed in 2021 was a tremendous gift. As we endured a second pandemic year, poets wrote about navigating an unquiet and often frightening world, about Nature, humanity, and relationships, about heredity, abuse, and the rewards of long love.
In these turbulent times, we need poetry and all the arts more than ever. I’m grateful for the words of these poets who put their hearts on the page for all to share.
I’m happy to announce the Sticks & Stones review schedule for 2022:
January 3: Rosetta by Karina Borowicz
February 7: Through a Red Place by Rebecca Pelky
March 7: Shade of Blue Trees by Kelly Cressio-Moeller
April 4: Nothing But by Alice B. Fogel
May 2: Tortillera by Caridad Moro-Gronleir subbed
June 6: Sufficient Emptiness by Marjorie Power
July 4: Hospice Plastics by Rachel Hinton
August 1: Uncertain Acrobats by Rebecca Hart Olander
September 5: Tell Me How You Got Here by Emily Franklin (non-sub)
October 3: The Curator’s Notes by Robin Rosen Chang subbed
November 7: Years Beyond the River by David Axelrod subbed
December 5: The World is God’s Language by Dane Cervine
Categories: Poetry Collection Reviews, The Art of the Review, This Writer's Life
Erica Goss 
Thank you…truly you are doing the noble work. Reviews are an utter act of love. Honored to be in this group and to have had your attention.
Wishing you and the fam a cozy holiday xx
Kelly
Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done. ― Hubert Selby Jr., from Requiem for a Dream
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