On Jesse Nissim’s Where They Would Never Be Invited
Book Review: Where They Would Never Be Invited by Jesse Nissim San Francisco, CA: Black Radish Books, 2016. 56 pages. $17.00. When I was a little girl—and even now—I stared into the windows of houses....
View ArticleThe SRPR Lucia Getsi Reading Series 2017
Announcement: The Spoon River Poetry Review (SRPR), published through the Illinois State University Publications Unit, announces its annual reading event. The SRPR Lucia Getsi Reading Series will take...
View ArticleTo Live in Half-inch Homes: Loss and Nostalgia in Agha Shahid Ali’s Poems
Shailen’s series “Space in Culture” explores the motif of space in the works of Indian poets and poetry. The late Indian (or Indian-American) poet Agha Shahid Ali’s poetry collection The Half-inch...
View ArticleLucia Getsi Reading Series – 2017
We are very happy to share with our readers photographs of the of 2017 Lucia Getsi Reading Series hosted on April 6 at the historic Ewing Manor in Bloomington, IL. The invited readers were Nancy...
View Article“Come, we can go in”: Contingency and Deep Seeing in Jorie Graham’s “San...
Beth’s series “Ekphrastic Possibility” explores what ekphrasis is, its evolution with the lyric tradition, and the craft of writing ekphrastic poems. One might consider Homer’s description of Achilles’...
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