When Kerosene’s Involved reviewed by Melanie J. Cordova

Melanie J. Cordova reviews When Kerosene’s Involved by Daniel Romo.   When Kerosene’s Involved Author: Daniel Romo Mojave River Press, 2014 ISBN: 978-1-63120-000-7 $14.95   Daniel Romo’s When Kerosene’s Involved is a collection of prose poems that...

Circus Rules by Paul Lander

To Whom It May Concern: Joining the circus is not all cotton candy and clown cars. Please abide by the following rules. Thank you. – Management CIRCUS RULES: The Cannon is for the Human Cannonball not for garbage or undocumented workers. No matter how the old saying...

A Map of Everything, reviewed by Robert Kostuck

Robert Kostuck reviews A Map of Everything by Elizabeth Earley.   A Map of Everything Author:  Elizabeth Earley Release date: March 2, 2014 Jaded Ibis Press, 2014, 288 pp., ISBN 978-1-937543-48-8 Black-on-cream edition: $16.99; Full-color edition: $49.00;...

Useful Skills by Marcy Campbell

“Everything’s gone to hell,” Dad says. He’s called at his usual time—9:00 p.m. Tuesday—with a report of his annual physical. He talks of arthritis, his impending knee replacement, acid reflux. “The doctor’s here don’t know shit!” he yells, and I hold the phone farther...

The Review Mirror reviewed by Robert Kostuck

Robert Kostuck reviews The Review Mirror by David M. Harris.   The Review Mirror Author:  David M. Harris Unsolicited Press, 2013, 52 pp. $9.00 ISBN 9780615852607   Regret? David M. Harris has none. Loss, lost opportunities, unrealized dreams—in the poems in...