Review by Emily Updegraff In Your Mother’s Bear Gun (River River Books, 2025), animal, vegetable, and mineral form much of each poem’s vocabulary. Like
by Ruth Foley Ellen Bryant Voigt is one of poetry’s sharpest minds—possibly the sharpest—when it comes to syntax. Her books The Flexible Lyric (2001)
by Megan Mericle The poetry collection Flourish is a dictionary of abstractions and natural wonders, arranged thematically instead of alphabetically. Even the table of
Ancilla, the Latin word for maidservant, gives this collection its title, but Erin Murphy gives it a swerve, a turn, when she quotes Nabokov