In January 2025, Sticks & Stones will begin its seventh year of publishing reviews of poetry collections.
The poets whose books I reviewed in 2024 addressed grief and loss, the experience of exile, infertility, and the natural world, of living in the spaces between illness and health, and the power of resilience. They wrote of how the abiding presence of Nature balances an acute awareness of climate change, how language connects family, and why the dead are never truly gone.
I’m happy to announce the Sticks & Stones review schedule for 2025:
January 6: Dark Souvenirs by John Amen
February 3: Easy Victims to the Charitable Deceptions of Nostalgia by Emily Schulten
March 3: Daughter of Three Gone Kingdoms by Joan Kwon Glass
April 7: The Loneliest Whale in the World by Tom C. Hunley
May 5: Left at the Ruin by Jacqueline Berger
June 2: Empty Me Full by Catherine Abbey Hodges
July 7: The Goodbye Kit by Daneen Bergland
August 4: Sadness of the Apex Predator by Dion O’Reilly
September 1: Life Field by Steve Ostrowski
October 7: Winter Sharp with Apples by Annette Sisson
November 3: If It Comes to That by Marc Frazier
December 1: Gratitude Diary by Jessica Cohn
Reviews of the following books will appear in other journals in 2025:
In the Museum of My Daughter’s Mind by Marjorie Maddox
Jacob’s Ladder by Rachel Barton
Too Much World, Not Enough Chocolate by Peggy Landsman
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