A former Poet Laureate of Alabama (2017-2021), Jennifer Horne is also the author of three collections of poems, Bottle Tree, Little Wanderer, and Borrowed Light, In addition to poetry, she is the author a collection of short stories, Tell the World You’re a Wildflower and a biography of the writer Sara Mayfield, Odyssey of a Wandering Mind: The Strange […]
“How My Father Became a Boat” by John Miller
September 20, 2026 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by Jennifer Horne Grief can take myriad forms after the loss of a beloved parent: memorials, rituals, foodways, domestic shrines, or just silence. Poets tend to grieve in writing. The collection in How My Father Became a Boat (Fernwood Press 2025), was assembled over many years (some of the poems have original journal publication […]
“Letters to Little Rock” by Jennifer Horne
November 19, 2025 by 1 Comment
Jennifer Horne’s Letters to Little Rock (Kelsay Books 2024) is a superb book for quite a few reasons, not the least of which is her supple use of demanding and seemingly constraining poetic forms. But the book’s greatest strength lies in a series of implicit questions: how can we remember and honor a beloved parent […]
October Read of the Month: “Second Blooming,” edited by Susan Cushman
October 1, 2020 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by Robert Kostuck “I was given a second chance, as were others in this anthology. Some of their lives were changed by trauma, some by incarceration, some by the loss of a loved one, some by marriages gone wrong or by new careers gone right.” —Susan Cushman “The explorer who will not come back […]