Contributions by Emily Mohn-Slate

Domestic Garden Poems by John Hoppenthaler Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2015 $15.95 John Hoppenthaler’s Domestic Garden begins with a ghost switching the names of roses in a garden, and ends with a speaker at a Chinese buffet who’s “given in…to desire so that [he] might die fat in your arms.” In between, we encounter boy …

Day Unto Day Poems by Martha Collins Milkweed Editions, 2014 $16.00 This April, the Internet will be flooded with legions of poets writing a poem a day for National Poetry Writing Month. Whether or not you decide to answer the NaPoWriMo call, you might do well to pick up Martha Collins’s sixth full-length collection, Day …