Good Press for Arboretum in a Jar

Cover image for Frances Donovan's collection of poetry "Arboretum in a Jar"

Mom Egg Review posted a blurb about my book in their last issue, and then this full-length review from Jiwon Choi most recently. Her thoughtful examination of my work made me feel seen. Here’s one excerpt:

Here the frayed lives of troubled A-list princesses Snow White and Rapunzel take up ample real estate, alongside a gaggle of B-listers with such tongue-in-[cheek] monikers as Fox News -,  Stoner -, and Manic Episode Princess, all struggling to deal with their own off shades of infamy.  Stoner Princess puts it best when she says that “she feels like a fish caught in a weir/ A blueberry caught in a mouth.”   A condition Anne Carson could be describing when she writes of the “soul trapped in glass,” not entirely the victim but “a slow collusion of Master and victim within one voice.”

Read the whole review

The Shoe, the End of Summer

on the wet grass
beside the park
a lone summer shoe
glitters
        despite the clouds

I am late already
but the shoe calls,
begging to be slipped
onto the delicate feet
of a princess
        not yet discovered