Now Available: More Animal Than Human by Mary A. Rogers

“Transfixed by Mary’s unbridled words, I found myself catching my breath as the poems opened me to long forgotten memories. Mary’s poetry evokes the wilderness, the flight of Baba Yaga, and raw, human emotions; relatable, honest words that scrape the underworld of the soul. This is a collection you can return to over and over,Continue reading “Now Available: More Animal Than Human by Mary A. Rogers”

Book Review: Kind Chemist Wife: Musings at 3 a.m., by Sarah Bigham / Reviewed by Candice Daquin

Kind Chemist Wife: Musings at 3 a.m.,  by Sarah Bigham Review by Candice Louisa Daquin This is a book about many things. In essence this is a book someone who has chronic pain or any chronic condition will find a great deal in. Any woman also. Any lesbian. Virtually any human being if they areContinue reading “Book Review: Kind Chemist Wife: Musings at 3 a.m., by Sarah Bigham / Reviewed by Candice Daquin”

Candice Louisa Daquin Reviews Nicole Lyons’ The Lithium Chronicles Vol. II

The Lithium Chronicles Volume ll. What happens to a writer who began to write to make sense of life, as she evolves as a human-being? Does she stay the same? Does her writing change? Add to this, the liquid mercury of emotions that push and pull that writer in myriad directions. How does this reflectContinue reading “Candice Louisa Daquin Reviews Nicole Lyons’ The Lithium Chronicles Vol. II”

Kindra M. Austin Reviews Kristiana Reed’s Between the Trees

My reflection in the train window settles between the trees beyond the glass lining the field of gold. In itself, the opening of the title poem speaks of forlorn reluctance, wishes, and wonders. It must be because there’s something so powerful and intimate about one’s reflection; we study ourselves and pick up every nuance, whetherContinue reading “Kindra M. Austin Reviews Kristiana Reed’s Between the Trees”

Candice Louisa Daquin Reviews the Myths of Girlhood

Christine Ray is an extremely rare creature, seemingly transplanted from another age and time, in that she knows absolutely no bounds and will persevere through any obstacle and has the passion of a seventeenth-century bard in her poetic composition and expression. In today’s saturated world of online bloggers most of us have read competent evenContinue reading “Candice Louisa Daquin Reviews the Myths of Girlhood”