Welcome to our celebration of Poetry Month! Among our reviews this week: Above Ground, "a tender yet powerful collection" of 70 poems from Clint Smith, "center[ing] his experience as a Black man, a husband, and a father in a rapidly changing... world"; Dislocations by Canadian poet Karen Enns, which "skillfully evokes a rural upbringing and revels in the beauty of nature and music"; and Feast, the debut poetry collection from Ina Cariño, drawing from life in the Philippines and the U.S. in "a true banquet for the senses."
Poet Maggie Smith in The Writer's Life talks about her memoir in vignettes, You Could Make This Place Beautiful, and the way "I enter every writing project as a poet," whether it's a book review or an e-mail.
--Jennifer M. Brown, senior editor, Shelf Awareness