My latest review for Colorado Review:
“The title of this collection encapsulates the way these poems combine honest vulnerability with an almost unraveled, or unraveling, sense of urgency for the self and the world—as if in poetry we are only able to barely eek out the poem before the stakes shift and the poem with it, the poet trailing off behind.”
In which I recommend 5 literary journals you should read this year (other than Ruminate)
…is me! So excited to be coming on as editor after years of working alongside Ruminate. Read more about my vision here.
My review of Bin Ramke’s forthcoming collection, Missing the Moon (October 2014, Omnidawn), is up at Colorado Review. Best book of poetry I’ve read in a long time.
“It seems paradoxical—to revere the distance between yourself and your beloved—but this distance is what teaches us to reach rather than retreat. ”
June Artist of the Month
I’m honored to be Imgae Journal‘s June Artist of the month!
“Gifted newcomer Kristin George Bagdanov is a border-crosser: in her poems, she moves her needle back and forth across the gap between mind and body, heaven and earth, human and nature, human and divine, then pulls the thread tight, drawing the panels together….”
Read more and see one of my poems from Image’s 25 year anniversary issue.
My thoughts on tragedy, poetry, symbol, issues, and grieving online. Ruminate.