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REVIEW: BLOOD PERCUSSION – NATE MARSHALL (BUTTON POETRY / EXPLODING PINECONE PRESS)

June 15, 2015 by Christopher Margolin

Sprinkle my ashes across the north side of Chicago & the surrounding suburbs.   the south side has seen too many black boys become the end of a flame. “In the Event of My Demise”  After reading the introduction to Nate Marshall’s Blood Percussion, I was deeply moved, but a little worried that the pieces would be so grounded in the world of Chicago, that I wouldn’t be able to fit inside the words. Then, I remembered, that’s a really […]

Categories: ARCHIVE • Tags: #blacklivesmatter, Button Poetry, chicago, hundreds, louder than a bomb, nate marshall, poetry, police, review, small press, the poetry question

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REVIEW: HERE COMES THE NEW JOY – JOHN BARRIOS (UNIVERSITY OF HELL PRESS)

June 11, 2015 by

   I am hesitant to include quotes from the book in this review. Not that it is a bad book, completely the opposite actually. I had such fun reading the book that I feel like any lines or poems I could use would be short changing the book as a whole,almost like watching a few scenes from True Detective and not watching all of the first season. You have to see all of it to truly absorb the density, and you should. […]

Categories: ARCHIVE • Tags: book, HBO, john barrios, poetry, review, the poetry question, true detective, university of hell, Wil Gibson, words

REVIEW: OUR NUMBERED DAYS – NEIL HILBORN (BUTTON POETRY)

June 10, 2015 by Christopher Margolin

    To say I hate you would imply a world in which I kissed more than your stomach. Look, we’ve established that I’m a jerk, so let me say this: I am a flat tire and you are a pothole full of lug nuts. I am a pile of bricks and you are holding a sledgehammer, which is to say I would not exist without you. – from “Ballad of the Bruised Lung” My therapist once told me that […]

Categories: ARCHIVE • Tags: Button Poetry, Hilborn, Neil Hilborn, OCD, our numbered days, poetry, review, small press, the poetry question, Viral, Youtube

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REVIEW: An Electric Sheep Jumps to Greener Pasture – Tyler Atwood (University of Hell Press)

June 4, 2015 by

  the truth was a mirror the church led me to believe I discovered the impossibility of finding my reflection in  the pieces when it broke a single-parent household I ran  my fingers through the shards of glass probing the edges  for where they once fit together finding only the  weakness of my own skin An introspective, dynamic collection with more layers than human skin and an onion on top of baklava, An electric sheep jumps to greener pasture by Tyler Atwood is […]

Categories: ARCHIVE • Tags: electric sheep, poetry, review, Sheep, the poetry question, tyler atwood, University of Hell Press, Wil Gibson, words

REVIEW: I Want Love So Great it Makes Nicholas Sparks Cream in His Pants – Calvero (University of Hell Press)

June 1, 2015 by

If you are looking for soft, pillow talk love poetry, this is not the collection for you. If you are looking for honest, real, hilarious, disgusting, uncomfortable,and fun truths, look no further.  The titles alone were a laugh out loud experience unto itself. “Get ready baby, ’cause I’m about to go balls deep into your heart” and “passion is like hopping on a bicycle with the seat missing” are just two of the best, and the poems don’t let up. […]

Categories: ARCHIVE • Tags: cream your pants, hell, nicholas sparks, poetry, review, sex, the poetry question, university

REVIEW: When the Gardener Has Left – KIERAN COLLIER (EMERSON COLLEGE)

May 18, 2015 by

  “She told me that she bought the ring in San Francisco at an outdoor market. I like to imagine she was watching the Pacific hold the coast the same way she would hold my father later that night. My father is a shore, my mother is an ocean; when they are together you cannot tell where one ends and the other begins.” I am firm believer in all poems having love in them. No matter what the subject, someone […]

Categories: ARCHIVE • Tags: Drunk in a Midnight Choir, Emerson College, poetry, review, small press, the poetry question, Wil Gibson, WIlde Press

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REVIEW – THE BONES OF US – J. BRADLEY AND ADAM SCOTT MAZER (YESYES BOOKS)

May 15, 2015 by

“The Bones of Us” is part poetry collection, part graphic novel, and all well done. J Bradley and Adam Scott Mazer have given us something we can appreciate from a few different angles. The poetry is moving and relatable… “We will kiss like passengers without floatation devices, Hang on to the side of the bed like a loose plank.” even if it is a bit muddled at times by the bombardment of images not brought forth by the words, but […]

Categories: ARCHIVE • Tags: Graphic Novel, poetry, review, the poetry quetsion, YES YES BOOKS

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REVIEW: ROBYN BATEMAN – DEAD AS (Bone Tax Press)

September 4, 2014 by Christopher Margolin

  I am baby-faced – I am baby-boned – I am the miracle of every death around me. I do not feel that the deaths of family members, a few familiar co-workers, and an acquaintance or two, truly bring to life the concept of losing someone whom you meet, and then becomes a part of you. Robyn Bateman’s newest chapbook, Dead As, is as close to capturing that feeling as anything I’ve ever read. There’s an overwhelming sense of loss that’s felt […]

Categories: ARCHIVE • Tags: Bone Tax Press, book review, chapbook, dead, poetry, portland, Portland Poetry Slam, review, Robyn Bateman

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REVIEW: PORTLAND POETRY SLAM – SO, WHAT? (Where Are You Press)

August 20, 2014 by Christopher Margolin

From “A Letter From My Well-Adjusted Adult Self (Whenever That Will Be) To My Current Mid-Twenties Self”  To get out of bed on a good day with depression, the ghost of your hope still needs to hop up first, pick up the frame, and shake you out. – Leyna Rynearson I feel pretty honored to live a mere 15 minutes from where the Portland Poetry Slam takes place every Sunday night. I’ve been a regular audience member for the last […]

Categories: ARCHIVE • Tags: Alex Dang, bully, Button Poetry, chapbook, chinese, Doc Luben, family, huffington post, Leyna Rynearson, National Poetry Slam, National Slam Poetry, poetry, portland, Portland Poetry Slam, rape culture, review, sexism, small press, unicorn, vietnamese

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