Book Reviews

Truth From Poets: A review of Carolyn Forches’ “What You Heard is True” by Mary Odden

The poet and memoirist Carolyn Forché joined the book club in the Copper Valley via Zoom on January 30 to talk about What You Have Heard is True, her experiences in El Salvador careening toward its 12 years of civil war. Her grace in spending time with us, and what she shared, will be with us […]

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Cummiskey Alley, a new book of poems by the Alaskan Tom Sexton

Review by Dan Branch Tom Sexton has always seemed pretty Alaskan to me. But, he grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts. He served in the Army at Anchorage’s Ft. Richardson, and eventually obtained an MFA from the University of Alaska in Fairbanks. Then he established a Creative Writing Program at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. Twenty-four

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