"These lines are a relief, but are also an example of how layout and letters work together in this collection to recreate the experience of the speaker. The layout shows both... Read More
At first: under table when he explodes, on windowsill when her eyes blank.(Fold up in corner of closet at chorus of slamming doors.)The week in bed with chicken pox: drab... Read More
My Crooked House by Teresa Carson Foreword by Randy Frost, Ph.D. House and home, with all their literal and figurative meanings, are the central tropes in Teresa Carson’s intensely candid... Read More
Though Walt Whitman was a native of New York, he lived the last nineteen years of his life in Camden, NJ. If you are in Camden, you can visit his house,... Read More
In April, I attended a poetry reading that celebrated New Jersey’s rich poetry heritage. Ten contemporary NJ poets read not only their own poems but also the poems of iconic NJ poets—e.g.... Read More
A huge congratulations to Dawn Potter and her 2014 Los Angeles Times Book Award nomination in Poetry! Same Old Story is her latest collection of poetry and one of CavanKerry’s latest releases. Read More
"With wit, subtlety, and irony, she offers earnest, no-holds-barred insights on domestic triumphs and hardships; the wariness and weariness of love; and the specter of loneliness that haunts everyday life,... Read More
January Gill O’Neil Kevin Carey Dawn Potter and Teresa Carson January Gill O’Neil and Joseph Legaspi And congrats to CKP poet January Gill O’Neil, Executive Director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival,... Read More