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20/01/2025

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05/12/2024

Read the full review of Bells by Rodger LeGrand published by Finishing Line Press on Bisbing Books.


You can almost feel the clenched fist of anger, coiled with power, bursting onto the page. A fist shaking at a sorrow to arise from our collective carelessness and the inevitable anguish of life unraveling at a rate we cannot control. The question is, can Pushcart-nominated poet Rodger LeGrand’s deep, resonant poems call us to action, so we move forward with more care?

You can almost feel the clenched fist of anger, coiled with power, bursting onto the page. A fist shaking at a sorrow to arise from our collective carelessness and the inevitable anguish of life unraveling at a rate we cannot control.

20/09/2024

New book by Finishing Line Press just reviewed by Bisbing Books.

Language Like Water is a moving, deeply personal glimpse into the layered, often tumultuous relationship between a mother and daughter. It can’t only be roses with something that goes so deep—many of our familial roots go into muddy messes. Or in Nancy Ge**er’s case “before argument tore us ...

02/09/2024

In Seeing—In a Small Town, Pasquale Trozzolo starts each poem with an epigraph/mini-memoir. Unlike most poets, Trozzolo offers the reader a glimpse of the perspective or scene behind his poetic inferences, and, in most cases, casts light on the hidden meanings through his eloquent phrasing.

10/05/2024

Native Chicagoan, award-winning poet, publisher of the literary arts journal After Hours , and blues saxophonist Albert DeGenova takes a deep look at youth in Human Nature . Youth of self, youth of country, youth of redemption. The mistakes we make without knowing we’ve done so until we look at th

10/05/2024

Early in the going of Chris La Tray’s exquisite memoir, Becoming Little Shell, a heart-rending scene occurs shortly after his grandfather’s funeral. Sitting with his father at a VFW bar, his old man says of his old man, “I’m not sad. Not even a little bit. That so*******ch never did a thing for me.”

Early in the going of Chris La Tray’s exquisite memoir, Becoming Little Shell , a heart-rending scene occurs shortly after his grandfather’s funeral. Sitting with his father at a VFW bar, his old man says of his old man, “I’m not sad. Not even a little bit. That so*******ch never did a thing...

10/05/2024

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01/04/2024

“In Bisbing’s rooted and riveting chapbook, we encounter a poetic voice that luminously inhabits the Western desolation without romanticizing it. There is a keen light in the eyes of this stoicism, at the heart of these petitions to wind and rock, which land so artfully ‘somewhere between the ...

29/03/2024

29/03/2024

“We come from nothing we can remember, / and travel toward a place we know nothing about, / the margins of our lives closed to us.” —“The Path of Melting Ice”

12/01/2024

Yalie Saweda Kamara is a Sierra Leonean American writer, who was the 2022/2023 Cincinnati and Mercantile Library Poet Laureate.

12/01/2024

We went live on Jan. 3, 2024. Check out our latest reviews!

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26/11/2021

The Price of the Repair's first public debut. https://whiskeytit.com/wt-journal-issue-6/

Recently I fell in love … with reading … again. During last year’s unspeakably bad pandemic winter, reading was impossible. To get my art fix, I mainlined old movies — the noir-er the better. I was…

03/11/2021

Review: A witty, uplifting book that meanders through big spiritual ideas and the challenges of finding happiness in the current state of the world.