Every Sky at Home: Essays on Landscape and Family | Bison Books | $26.95 I know Joe through his poetry; Lyric that achieves a cinematic stillness, electric spaces of totality like summer on the side of a highway, or the grown man that falls to the ground soundlessly in the memory. When I reached out to Joe about contributing to Boor Soirée, he made me aware that his next collection would be a book of essays. A man of many writerly hats, I wasn't surprised, but I also wondered whether there...

Lisa Lewis has published eight collections of poetry, most recently Taxonomy of the Missing (WordWorks, 2018) and a chapbook, The Borrowing Days (Emrys, 2021). A ninth collection titled Present and Future Storm is forthcoming from WordWorks. Recent work appears or is forthcoming in Dialogist, Action, Spectacle, Free State Review, Puerto del Sol, Clackamas Literary Review, Florida Review, New Letters, and elsewhere. She teaches in the creative writing program at Oklahoma State University...

Whole, Holy, Hot | Write Bloody Publishing | $18 Chrissy Martin's debut poetry collection reads as a revolving mirror: witness and vanity are cast onto both the collection's subjects and the reader, spotlighting our tendency to believe that seeing is knowing. The act of looking in Martin's collection performs a coding—whether that be in language or visual markers—and what escapes our gaze is tender, warming the poems from a softer underbelly. Full of wit and wonder, Martin's collection...