Review written for ClubReading.com by Bill

This years submission is (as usual) a well put together anthology of poetry submissions. Most of the work is new and young in nature. Several standouts directly referencing modern day technology and influences.

In the past, I’ve very much enjoyed the poetry review, but Number 13 left me wanting. It has a great variety of styles and subjects. But falls short of heart gripping literary works, instead, most of the pages are filled with immature drivel that sounds slightly more organized than scratchings on a waffle-house napkin at 3am.

There are some significant standouts however. Jeffrey Little shows us surprising depth and interest in his submission, “Towards A Theory For A Unified Field.” The first few lines draw us in with:

i am reminded to please wait through the silence, to
check my work pants at the door, but it’s raining tiny
czarists over in delaware again & if i’m not mistaken
that pine tree pointing to the east like a cone-bearing

babe ruth has been moonlighting as an acre of corn
silk behind an amish high-rise….

There are some lights shining in this collection, but for the most part, it is another college collection of 30-minute missives by people who may have just discovered E. E. Cummings.