Fifteen Years of Listening “The poem I want to write is impossible: a stone that floats.” —Charles Simic When the first issue of Asheville Poetry Review was released in June 1994, the price of a [...]
Reviews of Jeffery Beam’s What We Have Lost, Jim Clark’s Buried Land, Joel Dias-Porter’s Libation Song, and Keith Flynn’s Nervous Splendor What We Have Lost: New and [...]
Art or an art is not unlike a river, in that it is perturbed at times by the quality of the river-bed, but is in a way independent of that bed. The color of the water depends upon the substance [...]
“Flynn’s words need to be read aloud for the full dramatic impact,” writes Jennifer MacPherson in The Comstock Review, “but even on the page, they mesmerize the reader with their historical [...]
A Review of Donald Revell’s Arcady Arcady, by Donald Revell. Wesleyan University Press, 2002 72 pages. ISBN: 0-8195-6474-5 ($26.00 Cloth, $12.95 Paper). Yes friends, we live in a turbulent [...]
I Falling from the sky last night Above Asheville like a giant Burning mum was the most Beautiful moon I have ever seen. Swaddled in sherbert mist, Variegated silver and enormous, With jet liners [...]