Wednesday, June 8th, 2011

“Once More, with Feeling” by Michele Battiste

–from Rattle #34, Winter 2010 Rattle Poetry Prize Honorable Mention

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Thursday, July 15th, 2010

LIQUID LIKE THIS by Leslie Anne Mcilroy

Review by Michele Battiste LIQUID LIKE THIS by Leslie Anne Mcilroy Word Press PO Box 541106 Cincinnati, OH 45254-1106 ISBN 978-1-934999-16-5 2008, 84 pp., $18.00 www.word-press.com/ Leslie Anne Mcilroy begins Liquid Like This with an epigraph from Carole Maso: “Of course she goes too far./ There’s nowhere else for her to go.” These words function [...]

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Thursday, October 8th, 2009

“Landscaping” by Michele Battiste

Michele Battiste LANDSCAPING Ex-boyfriends appear like daffodils after a slow and stuttering melt. Last autumn squirrels dug up bulbs, ran off and buried them in places you’d never expect to find a fragile boast of spring. I’ve forgiven myself for not being much of a gardener, resenting the maintenance of dirt, but when I spot [...]

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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

EVEN THE HOLLOW MY BODY MADE IS GONE by Janice N. Harrington

Review by Michele Battiste EVEN THE HOLLOW MY BODY MADE IS GONE by Janice N. Harrington BOA Editions, Ltd. 260 East Avenue Rochester, NY 14604 ISBN 978-1-929918-89-8 2007, 85 pp., $15.50 boaeditions.org/ Janice N. Harrington won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize for Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone, a distinction she shares [...]

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