Praise / ReviewS / Interviews
A Geography That Does Not Hurt Us by Carla Sofia Ferreira
"This is a collection of intimacies…between family, ancestors, with terrain and with history."
Evelyn Berry, author of Grief Slut, TikTok Review
Dear Memphis by Rachel Edelman
"Through Dear Memphis readers are granted perceptive freedom for bodies at different axis of intersection — personal, familial, cultural, environmental — and how each of these intersections converse with each other."
Cody Stetzel, Tupelo Quarterly
"The lyrical quality of the poems does much of this work, but I’d like to name something else: intimacy.I’m enamored by the ways Edelman brings me into the private space where the speaker explores and affirms her sense of self by actively engaging with Memphis, with family and with memory."
Carolee Bennet, Reading Notes on Dear Memphis
"Dear Memphis is a book I felt carried into; its poems driven by lyric concerns as much as telling the story of the author’s relationship to place."
Erin Hoover, Southern Review of Books
Bullet Points: A Lyric by Jennifer A Sutherland
"I’m so drawn to “Bullet Points,” to its thorny, stark truths about how we bring forth the stories buried inside, whose expulsion from our bodies are both a relief and an edict."
Leslie Gray Streeter, The Baltimore Banner
"This compelling and challenging work, existing somewhere in the liminal ground of extended prose poem and fragmented lyric essay, invents a form to capture the experience of trauma."
Anne Myles, North American Review
"The lyricism shines when it comes to feeling and attempting to hold the aftershock of the events she has gone through."
Willow James Claire, ANMLY
Willow James Claire, ANMLY
“…an intricately woven tapestry, slowly unraveled…”
Sara Stoudt, Psaltery & Lyre
An Eye in Each Square by Lauren Camp
"It is this intimacy between artist and poet, art and landscape, that shapes An Eye in Every Square. An intimacy that the reader enters as if we are along for the residency, the speaker’s long walks and her exploration into Martin’s life and work, and ultimately her own life—her grief and longings."
Heidi Seaborn, The Adroit Journal
"...these are poems of our catastrophic time—of smoke and schism, love and abyss, vigil and disquiet."
Richard Oyama, Rain Taxi Review
"Camp achieves a fine balance between independence from, and allegiance to, her subject."
Rebecca Morgan Frank, in LitHub's 7 NEW POETRY TITLES TO READ IN JUNE
"This is the idea and purpose [Agnes Martin] and [Lauren Camp] share—the power and expansive possibility of the line, and their devotion to it."
Irene Cooper, in EcoTheo Review